Keynotes Announced!
December 11, 2008
The GEO Conference committee is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for (Media)tions: Translating the Body Politic!
Dr. Jonathan Gil Harris (George Washington University) will kick-off the conference with an address at 5 PM on Friday February 27.
Day Two will feature an address at 11 AM by the University of Maryland’s own Dr. Zita Nunes.
Dr. Harris is Professor of English at George Washington University. His fifth book, Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare, was published by University of Pennsylvania Press this fall.
Dr. Nunes is Associate Professor of English and the Director of the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Maryland. Her new book Cannibal Democracy:Race and Representation in the Literature of the America was released by University of Minnesota Press earlier this year.
We here at the committee are thrilled to welcome these accomplished and respected scholars to the conference.
