Pulitzer Prize winner on campus Tuesday.Byline: The Register-Guard Louis Menand, the author of "The Metaphysical Club," a Pulitzer Prize-winning book that explores American pragmatism, will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday, in 182 Lillis Hall, 955 E. 13th Ave. Admission is free. Menand is the 2004-05 Kritikos Professor in the Humanities. A professor of English and American literature American literature, literature in English produced in what is now the United States of America. Colonial Literature American writing began with the work of English adventurers and colonists in the New World chiefly for the benefit of readers in and language at Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. , Menand also is a staff writer for the New Yorker and a contributing editor A contributing editor is a magazine job title that varies in responsibilities. Most often, a contributing editor is a freelancer who has proven ability and readership draw. for the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Review of Books. "The Metaphysical Club" won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2002. In his Kritikos lecture, Menand will trace the history of American universities, with a special focus on humanities departments. He will examine current pressures and "threats" affecting the liberal arts and the humanities, and will speculate on their future. Menand also will speak in Portland on Thursday, this time on "The Story of the Soup Cans." He will discuss why Andy Warhol's 1962 exhibit of paintings of Campbell's soup cans  Campbell's Soup Cans (sometimes referred to as 32 Campbell's Soup Cans)[1] is a work of art produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol. was an important event in the intellectual history of the Cold War. The Portland lecture is at 8 p.m. in the Mayfair Ballroom of the Benson Hotel, 309 S.W. Broadway. The Kritikos professorship was created through a private gift, matched by state and National Endowment for the Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) U.S. independent agency. Founded in 1965, it supports research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. funds, to bring speakers to Oregon who share "a commitment to intellectual honesty and freedom" and "a recognition of the worth of open and honest civic discussion and critical analysis of differing viewpoints and values." For more information, call the Oregon Humanities Center, 346-3934. |
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