Date: Thurs, December 8, 2005 Time: 4:30 PM Public Lecture: John Kucich (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor) "The Masochism of the Craft: Conrad's Imperial Professionalism" Location: Alexander Library 4th Floor , Teleconference Room 169 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ

Bio:
John Kucich is a Professor of English at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His areas of specialization include Victorian literature and culture, literary theory, and postmodern studies. He has published Fictions of Empire (Houghton-Mifflin, 2002); Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century, ed. with Dianne F. Sadoff (Minnesota, 2000); The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (Cornell University Press, 1994); Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens (University of California Press, 1987); Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens (University of Georgia Press, 1981); essays on Victorian fiction in PMLA, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, ELH, Victorian Studies, Dickens Studies Annual, Mosaic, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Novel, etc. He is currently writing a book entitled Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class.