STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State English professor and author Robert West will be the Monday [Nov. 23] guest for the university's ongoing Institute for the Humanities Distinguished Speaker Series.
Free and open to all, his presentation, titled "Mystery, Plentitude, Contradiction, and Composure: Teaching Poetry as Resistance," begins at 3 p.m. in Mitchell Memorial Library's third-floor John Grisham Room.
West, a doctoral graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, teaches courses in contemporary literature, literature of the South, and the form and theory of poetry, among others.
West also is book review editor for the Mississippi Quarterly, an MSU-based scholarly journal dedicated to the life and culture of the American South.
In addition to two chap books of poetry, he has written essays, book reviews and poems that have appeared in the Appalachian Journal, Carolina Quarterly and Christian Science Monitor, among other publications.
For more information on the program, telephone 662-325-2646.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.
