"To Kill A Mockingbird and the Southern Gothic Tradition"
with Keith B. Mitchell
Assistant Professor of English and Ethnic Literatures at UMass Lowell
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
7:30 p.m.

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Professor Mitchell will discuss southern literature from William Faulkner to Eudora Welty and to recent writers like William Gay and will give an overview of Southern Gothic literature in relationship to Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Keith B. Mitchell is assistant professor of English and Ethnic literatures at UMass Lowell. He received his B.A. in English from Emory University and his Masters Degree and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published extensively on American, African American, and West Indian literatures and is currently working on a book manuscript comprised of a collection of essays on the African American writer Percival Everett, as well as an essay on religion and morality in Cormac McCarthy’s novels "No Country for Old Men" and "The Road."

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