CONWAY, Ark. (January 20, 2014) – Dr. Gordon Hutner will
deliver this year's Drake Lecture titled "The 21st-Century American
Novel: An Anatomy" on Thursday,
Jan. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Reves Recital Hall.
Hutner is Professor of English at University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. He is
the founding editor of American Literary History (Oxford University Press) and
author of What America Read: Taste,
Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960. He has authored numerous articles and
edited several collections and anthologies, including Secrets and Sympathy: Forms of Disclosure in Hawthorne's Novels and
a new edition of Sinclair Lewis's Babbit (Oxford, 2010). He has also written on
the future of the humanities in an era of economic crisis for The New Republic.
The lecture, sponsored by the Hendrix College Department of
English, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Hendrix English professor Dr. Toni Jaudon at 607-279-7442 or email jaudon@hendrix.edu.
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in
engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year,
Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges,
as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and
the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United
Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.