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Tim Dean to present 4th Annual Magliocco Lecture Nov. 3
October 29, 2009
MACOMB, IL - - Tim Dean, a University of Buffalo English professor who teaches psychoanalysis, queer theory and poetic modernism, will present the 4th Annual Magliocco Lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
His talk, "What is Psychoanalytic Thinking: An Approach to the Humanities," is scheduled for 7 p.m. Nov. 3 in the University Union Lincoln Room.
Dean is the author of "Gary Snider and the American Unconscious" (Palgrave Macmillan, 1991); "Beyond Sexuality" (University of Chicago Press, 2000); and co-author of "Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis" (University of Chicago Press, 2001). His latest book, "Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking" (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
A former British civil servant (servant to the Crown), Dean earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK); attended Brandeis University, and studied abroad his junior year; and earned his master's and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He wrote an undergraduate dissertation on Gary Snyder and a doctoral dissertation on Hart Crane. He also has been a Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.
The Maurine Magliocco Lecture Series in the Department of English and Journalism was established in October 2006. The $30,000 endowment commitment supports an annual lecture in literature, film, theory or the state of the discipline. Magiocco taught English at Â鶹´«Ã½ for 37 years and retired in 2004.
Sponsors for the program are Â鶹´«Ã½'s Department of English and Journalism and the College of Arts and Sciences.
Dean's talk is open free to the public.
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