Dr. Jim Zebroski will discuss "Inverse Exegesis: A Lesson from the Ancients About Academic Reading and Interpretation" on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 1 p.m. in Reed Hall, rm. 125. A critical theorist, he is a senior faculty person in rhetoric and composition at the University of Houston. Zebroski’s book Thinking Through Theory: Vygotskian Perspectives on the Teaching of Writing (1994) was the first book-length consideration of Lev Vygotsky’s work and its import for composition in the discipline of rhetoric and composition. He has also published more 35 articles or chapters of books on a wide range of topics including the politics of writing instruction, post-Fordism and 21st century composition, contemporary composition history, composition textbook advertisements, and teacher response to student texts.
The first Live Oak Reading Series event of the Fall semester features Jake Adam York at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24 in the Moudy Bldg. S, rm. 320. York is the author of three books of poems—Murder Ballads (2005), winner of the Elixir Prize in Poetry; A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), co-winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition and winner of the Colorado Book Award; and Persons Unknown (2010), published by Southern Illinois University Press as an editor’s selection in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.
His work has appeared in numerous literary journals including The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, New South, Ninth Letter, Shenandoah, The Northwest Review, and Poetry Daily.For more information on any of the events, contact the English Dept. at x. 6890.
