British scholar to speak on Lord Byron

4:30 p.m., Aug. 25, 2005--Noted Byron scholar Malcolm M. Kelsall, professor emeritus of English at Cardiff University, will deliver the sixth annual Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lecture, at 4 p.m., Friday, Sept. 30, in 127 Memorial Hall. The lecture is entitled “The Delirium of the Brave: Byron and the United Irishmen.”

The lecture is sponsored by the Byron Society of America and the UD English department.

Kelsall is the author of Byron’s Politics in 1987, which won the Elma Dangerfield Prize given by the International Byron Society for the best book on the life and work of George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), and numerous articles and lectures on Byron and Romanticism. He has edited the works by other well-known writers of the period, and his most recent books are Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism: Folk, Land, Culture and the Romantic Nation (1999) and Literary Representations of the Irish Country House (2003).

Educated at Oxford University, Kelsall served as a visiting scholar or professor at the University of Paris VII, the University of Hiroshima, Charles University in Prague, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Glasgow and the International Center for Jefferson Studies.

For more information or to attend the lecture, contact Charles Robinson at (302) 831-3654 or [robinson@udel.edu].

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