Tuesday, October 31, 2006

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

UGA’s Lanier Series presents lecture by Canadian scholar: “Returnally Reprodictive Joyce”

Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia’s Lanier Speaker Series in the English department presents Canadian scholar Tim Conley in a lecture called “Returnally Reprodictive Joyce” on Nov. 6 at 3:30 p.m. in room 265 Park Hall. Conley will discuss common and uncommon (mis)interpretations of the work of the Irish writer James Joyce.
Lanier Series events are free and open to the public.

Tim Conley is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, where he also teaches graduate courses in Comparative Literature. Conley is the author of Joyces Mistakes: Problems of Intent, Irony, and Interpretation (University of Toronto Press, 2003), co-author of The Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages (Greenwood, 2006), and a collection of short fiction, Whatever Happens (Insomniac Press, 2006).

The Lanier Speaker Series, inaugurated in 2001 by Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia, brings visiting artists, authors and scholars to UGA. The mission of the series is to enrich the intellectual life of the campus, to extend the English department's outreach to the academic community, to enhance interdisciplinary discourse and to engage alumni and Athens residents with an annual series of stimulating lectures. Previous speakers on the Lanier Series include Louis Menand, Paul Muldoon, Marjorie Perloff, Ed Sanders, Lyn Hejinian, Robert O’Meally, Alice Notley and Fredric Jameson.

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