Dr. Clabough is the Harrison Institute’s inaugural Lillian Gary Taylor Fellow in American Literature. His talk will focus on the roles of experiential learning and autobiography in coming to understand a place and one’s existence in it. He will emphasize the Virginia material he has been researching at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.
Dr. Clabough received his Ph.D. in English from the University of South Carolina. His books include, Elements: The Novels of James Dickey (Mercer University Press, 2002), Experimentation and Versatility: The Early Novels and Short Fiction of Fred Chappell (Mercer University Press, 2005). He has also published numerous articles, including, “George Garrett’s South: A Literary Image” in the Virginia Quarterly Review and “Afrocentric Recolonizations: Gayl Jones’ 1990s Fiction” in Contemporary Literature.
The lecture will be at 3 p.m. July 12 at the Harrison Institute, UVa Library, Byrd Seminar Room (318). The Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library is located on McCormick Road, adjacent to Alderman Library, on the University of Virginia grounds. Hourly parking is available in the Central Grounds parking garage on Emmet Street, about a block south of the intersection with University Avenue. For more information call, 434/982-4548.
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