Hiram College Presents Jeffrey Hammond, Literary Scholar and Essayist October 8, 2009

Jeffrey Hammond, George B. and Willma Reeves Distinguished Professor in the Liberal Arts at St. Mary's College of Maryland, will use his interdisciplinary background to talk about Marx toy sets for boys. He is the author of several scholarly books, including The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study, Sinful Self, Saintly Self: The Puritan Experience of Poetry, Edward Taylor: Fifty Years of Scholarship and Criticism, and two collections of personal essays' Ohio States: A Twentieth-Century Midwestern and Small Comforts: Essays at Middle Age. His work has appeared in Antioch Review, Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, Southern Review, Fourth Genre, and The American Scholar. Hammond has won a Pushcart Prize for essay, Shenandoah's Carter Prize for Essay, and Missouri Review's Editors' Prize in Essay.

Event will be held in the Library Pritchard Room