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'Thirteen Ways of Looking from a Skyscraper': Modern American Poetry and Architecture.

Inaugural lecture by Professor Jo Gill.

Jo Gill is Professor of Twentieth-Century and American Literature in the Department of English.


Event details

She teaches modern and contemporary English and American literature and is the author of several books and articles including Anne Sexton's Confessional Poetics, The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath and The Poetics of the American Suburbs. Her inaugural lecture will draw on research for her next book, Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination, which she is completing with the support of a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship.

This lecture will be followed by a drinks reception from 6.00 - 7.30pm in Queen's Café. To book a place, please email: humanities-deans-office@exeter.ac.uk or  tel: 01392 726315/5072.

Image courtesy of Neil Stevens.

Prof. Jo Gill

Location:

Queens Building LT2