FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept. 10, 1999
CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119
DRAKE LECTURE TO EXPLORE THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN LITERATURE AND MUSIC
Bruce K. Martin, professor of English and endowment professor of humanities at Drake University, will discuss the relationship between literature and music when he delivers the annual Luther W. Stalnaker Lecture at Drake University on Wednesday, Sept. 15.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is titled "Song, Modern Writing and the New Textuality." The event will start at 8 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main, 26th Street and University Avenue. A reception in Levitt Hall will follow the lecture.
Professor Martin joined the Drake English Department in 1967 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. He served as department chair from 1983 to 1989. During the 1986-87 academic year, he was visiting Fulbright professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore, where he returned in 1991-92 as visiting professor of English. He also spent 1995-96 as a visiting Fulbright professor at Kwangju University in South Korea.
Although he has taught the great majority of English courses listed in the Drake catalog and developed new courses as changes in the curriculum and in his interests dictated, Martin's principal teaching and research continue to center on British literature of the 19th and 20th centuries and on literary theory.
Besides papers and published articles on various British and American writers, as well as on aspects of teaching and literary theory, he has written three books: "Philip Larkin" (1978), "British Poetry Since 1939" (1985), and "David Lodge" (1999). His current projects concern aspects of David Lodge's fiction not covered in his book, as well as a possible critical edition of the classic 19th-century Australian novel, "My Brilliant Career."
Martin's lecture will be the 15th of the series at Drake University honoring the memory of Luther W. Stalnaker, dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1940 to 1954. This series is a joint undertaking of the College of Arts and Sciences and its emeriti faculty. For more information, call (515) 271-3939.