Folkenflik Talk on the Haverford Portrait of Samuel Johnson”
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
"Blinking Sam, ‘Johnson’s Grimly Ghost’ and the Haverford Portrait of Samuel Johnson"
Talk by Robert Folkenflik, Distinguished Visitor in the English Department
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 — 4:30 pm; Tea at 4:15 pm
Magill Library, Quaker & Special Collections
Robert Folkenflik is Professor of English/Comparative Literature, UC-Irvine. His books include Samuel Johnson, Biographer; The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-Representation; and The English Hero: 1660-1800. Folkenflik’s research interests include: Eighteenth-Century; Renaissance; Novel; Autobiography; Biography; History of Literary Theory; Literature and Other Arts; Cultural Studies.
For more information please contact Laura McGrane (610-896-1155) lmcgrane@haverford.edu