English Department Lecture Series: Maurice Lee April 4, 2012

Maurice S. Lee is an associate professor of English at Boston University. His research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century American literature with particular emphasis on the intersections of culture, politics, philosophy, and science; African American literature; the literature of slavery and the Civil War; and American literary and intellectual history. He is the author of Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860 (Cambridge University Press, 2005); The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass (Cambridge University Press, 2009); and Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2011), as well as numerous essays in leading professional journals. Currently he is at work on another book-length study titled Accounting for Literature: Aesthetics, Interpretation, and Quantification and several essays toward an intellectual history of the black press. The title of his talk is “Manning Up in the Civil War: Slavery, Risk, and Frederick Douglass.”

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