Henry Darger and other American artists

I strongly recommend the Henry Darger bit--one of those odd and eccentric American artists, like Joseph Cornell, who did his art when no one was looking, and was only discovered after his death. The wonderful American poet John Ashbery (still alive) wrote a book, _Girls on the Run_, based loosely on Darger's work.

Dear Faculty Members and Graduate Students in the English Department,
it is a pleasure to invite all of you to attend talks by two distinguished scholars this week, Jonathan Goldberg (Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at the Johns Hopkins University) and Michael Moon(Professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University).

While their topics are quite different from each other, they certainly lend themselves well to being part of our Chadwick Distinguished Lecture Series.
Jonathan Goldberg will talk about "Homoeroticism in Literary History: Some Early Modern Couples"
on Thursday, January 26, 2006, at 3:00 pm, in Kuykendall 410
Michael Moon will discuss the work of the "outsider artist," Henry Darger in a seminar entitled
"Insides Out: Contexts for Darger" on Friday, January 27, 2006, at 3:30 pm, in Kuykendall 410.

Reading material in connection with both talks is available in Kuykendall 402.

Two showings of "In the Realms of the Unreal" (a documentary by Jessica Yu on the work of Henry Darger) will also be held in preparation for Professor Moon's talk:
Jan. 25 (Wed.), 3:00 pm in Kuykendall 410
and
Jan. 27 (Fri.), 2:00 pm in Kuykendall 410

Even if you have no time to read the material ahead, please join us and encourage others to attend as well. If you have further questions, contact David Baker or Valerie Wayne, whom I'd like to thank for organizing these events.

Cristina