UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 13, Page 4
November 30, 1995
English prof. featured in Lavender series program

     Gary Fisher in Your Pocket" is the topic of a free public lecture
by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Newman Ivey White Professor of English at
Duke University, scheduled at 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 7, in Room 130 of
Smith Hall.
     The talk will focus on Fisher, an African-American, gay fiction
writer who died of AIDS in San Francisco in 1994 at the age of 31. In
her talk, Sedgwick will discuss some of the issues of sexuality and
race, pedagogy and memory raised in Fisher's work.
     Sedgwick is the author of Between Men: English Literature and
Male Homosocial Desire and a new book, Epistemology Of The Closet,
which has been called "a work of literary criticism, a cultural study,
a political analysis, a text for gay and straight, academic and non-
academic readers and potentially a landmark in the development of
lesbian and gay studies...an extraordinary book," by a critic in The
Women's Review of Books.
     Sedgwick earned her bachelor's degree in English from Cornell
University and both her master's and doctoral degrees from Yale
University.
     Her Newark appearance is part of the Lavender Scholars lecture
series. The Lavender Scholars are a group of lesbian and gay male
faculty, staff and graduate students at UD.
     The lecture series is sponsored by the University Faculty Senate
Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events, the colleges of
Education and Urban Affairs and Public Policy and the offices of
Residence Life and Affirmative Action and Multicultural Programs, the
Black American Studies and Women's Studies programs, the Visiting
Women's Scholars Fund and the departments of Economics, English,
History, Music and Philosophy.
     The program has been partially funded by a grant from the
Delaware Humanities Forum, in cooperation with the National Endowment
for the Humanities.
     For more information, call 831-8703.