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W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series - "Queer Historiography"

Professor Stephen Guy-Bray gives a lecture at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on October 26, 2009.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series in American Culture Studies offers new contributions to the urgently needed intercultural dialogue by inviting scholars and intellectuals to give lectures open to a wider audience that address some of the crucial aspects and problems of public culture and the modes of cultural critique today. On Monday, October 26, the Department of English and American Studies invites everyone to join the public lecture by Stephen Guy-Bray.

Stephen Guy-Bray: "Queer Historiography"
on October 26, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Dorotheenstraße 24 (Hegelplatz), room 1.501

Stephen Guy-Bray is associate professor for English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He has also taught in Trent, Toronto and Calgary. Professor Guy-Bray is an expert in English Renaissance Literature and is especially interested in questions of gender and sexuality. He has published on homoerotic spaces in Renaissance Literature and on "loving in verse." One of his more recent interests is queer historiography, queer history and in particular the writing of queer history.



FURTHER INFORMATION
Prof. Dr. Martin Klepper
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Department of English and American Studies
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
martin.klepper@rz.hu-berlin.de
www.angl.hu-berlin.de