Worsham to Deliver CAS Spring Lecture

Illinois State University English Professor Lynn Worsham will present "The Humanities in an Age of Catastrophe" as part of the Illinois State University College of Arts and Sciences lecture series on Tuesday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Old Main Room at Bone Student Center.  The lecture is free and open to the public.

Worsham earned her Ph.D. in humanities from the University of Texas at Arlington, and has been a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and the University of South Florida.  Her scholarship is in the areas of rhetoric, feminist theory and world literature by woman. Worsham is the author or co-author of seven books, including "The Politics of Possibility: Encountering the Radical Imagination," "Race, Rhetoric and the Postcolonial" and "Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words." 

The editor of "JAC: A Quarterly Journal of Rhetoric, Culture and Politics," Worsham was awarded the Council of Editors of Learned Journals Phoenix Award for significant editorial achievement.  She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received the President's Award for Faculty Excellence at the University of South Florida.  Worsham's works have been reprinted in collections such as "Contending With Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age" and "Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook." "Going Postal: Pedagogic Violence and the Schooling of Emotion" will be reprinted in The Norton Anthology of Composition.

Worsham's research was highlighted in the "Chronicle of Higher Education" story, "Deconstructing Composition: The 'New Theory Wars' Break Out in an Unlikely Discipline."