THOMAS L. LONG
AIDS and culture at the fin d’autre siècle
TODAY (April 7) at 11:00am
AUST 103
Thomas Long is Associate Professor in Residence in the School of Nursing, with a dual appointment on the core WGS faculty. He is the author of AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic and co-editor of The Meaning Management Challenge: Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease. He is a founding officer of the MLA’s Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum and Associate Editor of Literature and Medicine.
Prof. Long’s talk will be tailored for Prof. Mary Burke’s ENGL3509 OSCAR WILDE class. It will address the AIDS epidemic setting of Will Self’s DORIAN: An Imitation (2002), a novel inspired by Wilde’s The PICTURE of DORIAN GRAY (1891).
FREE and OPEN TO ALL
For more information, contact: Mary Burke at mary.burke@uconn.edu