{"id":38573,"date":"2016-03-15T03:27:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T07:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=38573"},"modified":"2016-03-14T16:27:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T20:27:04","slug":"award-winning-rutgers-professor-to-speak-teach-at-ut-march-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_15_2016\/award-winning-rutgers-professor-to-speak-teach-at-ut-march-17","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning Rutgers professor to speak, teach at UT March 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year since 1990, The University of Toledo Department of English Language and Literature has selected one distinguished writer, literary scholar or critic to speak at the Richard Summers Memorial Lecture on literature or its relationship to language, culture or art.<\/p>\n

This year, that speaker will be Dr. Carolyn Williams, professor and chair of the Rutgers University English Department and author of Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody and Transfigured World: Walter Pater\u2019s Aesthetic Historicism, <\/em>along with a number of other articles and editions.<\/p>\n

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Williams<\/p><\/div>In addition to her successes in writing, Williams has won a number of awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2004-05), the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching (1999) and the Scholar-Teacher Award at Rutgers (2010).<\/p>\n

Williams specializes in Victorian literature and culture and will present \u201cWhy Melodrama Matters: On the Stage, on the Page, on the Screen, and in the News\u201d when she visits The University of Toledo Thursday, March 17, at 4 p.m. The free, public lecture will be held in the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections on the fifth floor of Carlson Library.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe English department invited Dr. Williams because she is both a superb literary scholar and excellent teacher with a reputation for intelligence and collegiality,\u201d said Dr. Melissa Gregory, UT associate professor of English.<\/p>\n

While at the University, Williams will teach a class on melodrama as part of Gregory\u2019s Victorian Genres master\u2019s seminar. She also will host a professionalization workshop for graduate students. <\/p>\n

\u201c[Williams\u2019] work on the aesthetics of 19th-century melodrama not only speaks to the study of genre, always a key concern in English studies, but also to the representation of politically charged events in our contemporary society,\u201d Gregory said.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact Gregory at melissa.gregory@utoledo.edu<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Carolyn Williams, author of \u201cGilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody and Transfigured World: Walter Pater\u2019s Aesthetic Historicism,\u201d will give the Richard Summers Memorial Lecture Thursday, March 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,37],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38626,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38573\/revisions\/38626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}