September 20, 2000



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Contact: Marvin Hunt, Continuing Education, (785) 864-7857.

'Many Houses of English' to attract teachers, authors

LAWRENCE - High school and college teachers of English composition and literature will convene Monday, Oct. 9, at the University of Kansas Student Union for "The Many Houses of English," the 48th Annual Conference on Composition and Literature.

About 200 English teachers from Kansas and Missouri schools are expected to attend the conference, which features workshops and panels on English teaching.

Speakers at this year's conference include:

  • Michelle Cliff, a native of Jamaica who is considered one of the most important Caribbean novelists of our time. She will read and make comments during the 12:20 p.m. luncheon in the Kansas Union ballroom. Cliff's collection of short fiction, "The Store of a Million Items," was voted one of the 25 best books of the year by the Voice Literary Supplement in 1998.

  • Joyce Chadwick, a Mark Twain scholar at Harvard University, who will lead a workshop at 1:50 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union on "Teaching Mark Twain, the 'N' Word, and Other Sensitive Texts." She actively promotes the teaching of Twain, speaking in states where "Huckleberry Finn" is banned

  • Frank M. Farmer, KU associate professor of English, whose primary interests are rhetoric, writing and cultural studies. He will speak at 9 a.m. in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union on "Imagining a New Chautauqua: Service Learning and Its Prospects for Community." He recently published "Landmark Essays on Bakhtin, Rhetoric, and Writing."

    For more information about the conference contact Marvin Hunt, KU Continuing Education, (785) 864-5823 or toll free (877) 404-5823 or send e-mail to kuce@ku.edu.

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