Jay Clayton

Department of English, Vanderbilt University

"Victorian Chimeras, or, What Literature

Can Contribute to Genetics Policy Today "

Thursday, March 1, 2007

4:30 PM

Plangere Writing Center Annex

Murray Hall, Room 302

Jay Clayton is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He received his B.A. from Yale University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

He is the author of Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture (Oxford, 2003), The Pleasures of Babel: Contemporary American Literature and Theory (Oxford, 1993), and Romantic Vision and the Novel (Cambridge, 1987). He is the editor, with Karen Newman and Marianne Hirsch, of Time and the Literary (Routledge, 2002), and, with Eric Rothstein, of Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History (Wisconsin, 1991). His current research involves the ethical and social issues raised by genetics as they appear in literature and film. He has lectured on genetics and literature at the National Genome Research Institute at the NIH, the English Institute, the MLA. the Narrative Soceity, the Society for Literature and Science, and medical schools across the country.

Contact: Sarah Kennedy (sarahmk@rci.rutgers.edu)