Elaine Scarry

Literary Theorist and Cultural Critic, Elaine Scarry is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value for the Department of English at Harvard University.

Her multiple interest encompass 20th-Century Drama; 19th-Century British Novel; Theory of Representation; Language of Physical Pain; Structure of Verbal and Material Making in Art, Science, and the Law.

Elaine Scarry will be presented by the Stanford Humanities Center as part of the Presidential and Endowed Lectures in the Humanities and Arts.

Her lecture is entitled "Nine One One: Citizenship in Emergency."

The lecture will take place on Monday, February 25th, 2002 in Room 290, of the School of Law at 7:00pm

A discussion will follow on Tuesday, February 26th, 2002, from 10:30am - 12:00noon, at the Stanford Humanities Center: 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford University

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