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1998 Fall Symposium

The 1998 Fall Symposium showcased the range and variety of scholarly and artistic work being done by WSU humanities and arts faculty. Specifically, it featured presentations by Humanities Center Faculty Fellows and Dissertation Fellows, as well as by outstanding WSU faculty and an invited keynote speaker.

Keynote Speaker

Arnold Rampersad, Professor of English and African Studies at Stanford University: "African American Biography in the New Millenium

Other Presenters

Ronald Brown, Associate Professor and Chair, Political Science: The Millennial Perception of Louis Farrakhan: Implications for American Exceptionalism

Zanita Fenton, Assistant Professor, Law School: The Power of Words

Jose Ibanez, Ph.D. Candidate, Romance Languages: Fuentes Intertextuales en la Escritura Ensayistica de Jose Jimanez Lozanzo

Kathryne Lindberg, Professor, English: Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois and the Blacklist: Will Black Internationalism still b e "Un-American" after 2000?

Robert Mellin, Ph.D. Candidate, English: Outside Theory: Speculations on the Grounds of Literary Ecology