Wednesday, November 2, 2005

WRITER: Suzi Wong, 706/542-7103, swong@uga.edu
CONTACT: Jed Rasula, 706/542-1261, rasulaj@uga.edu

Harvard Professor Daniel Albright to Speak at the University of Georgia about “Belletristic Music: The Novel’s Melody”

ATHENS, Ga. -- On Nov. 17, , Daniel Albright will visit the University of Georgia to speak in the English department’s Lanier Series. His lecture, titled “Belletristic Music: The Novel’s Melody,” will take place in 265 Park Hall at 4:45 p.m.

Albright, the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, is a leading scholar in the theories and strategies of comparative arts. His interdisciplinary research interests are manifest in his books, including Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources (University of Chicago, 2004); Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts (University of Chicago, 2000); and Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Albright is also renowned for his writings on Shakespeare, Tennyson, Beckett, Kafka, Nabokov, Lawrence, Woolf, Berlioz, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg. The titles of Albright’s articles underscore the cross-disciplinary and provocative character of his investigations: “Postmodern Interpretations of Satie’s Parade,” “An Opera with No Acts: Four Saints in Three Acts,” and “Beckett at the Bowling Alley,” “Kurt Weill as Ironist,” and “Yeats and Science Fiction.”

Albright is also general editor of Border Crossings: Modernism in Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts, a series of volumes of new essays in comparative arts by Garland Publishing. In fall 2003, he created a synoptic essay for the Ransom Center exhibition of "Modernism" at the University of Texas in Austin.

The Lanier Series, inaugurated in 2001, brings scholars, authors, and artists in different disciplines to enrich the intellectual life of the English department, UGA, and the Athens community. All lectures are free and open to the public.