Join us from the comfort of your own home for our spring virtual lecture series. Whittier Birthplace Virtual Lectures will take place over Zoom. Prior registration is required.

Suggest donation: $10/household

Speaker: Professor Anthony Szczesiul of UMass Lowell

Anthony Szczesiul is a Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His research interests include American poetry, nineteenth and twentieth century American literature, and Southern literary and cultural studies. He is the author of The Southern Hospitality Myth: Ethics, Politics, Race, and American Memory (University of Georgia Press, 2017) and Racial Politics and Robert Penn Warren’s Poetry (University Press of Florida, 2002), which received a "Choice Outstanding Academic Title" award in 2003. His articles have appeared in journals such as American Transcendental Quarterly, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Mississippi Quarterly, Style, and European Journal of American Culture. He has served on the Executive Board of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature and has chaired the society’s C. Hugh Holman Book Award Committee. He is also a member of the editorial board for Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures. He served as UMass Lowell English Department Chair from 2011-2017.

Topic: John Greenleaf Whittier's Radical, Abolitionist Cosmopolitianism

Register here by Friday, March 19th.