English professor and author Cindy Weinstein will deliver the keynote address for the 2013 Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature (NUCL), sponsored by the University of Portland English department, on Saturday, April 13, at 1:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center recital hall on the University campus, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd. Her lecture, titled “When is Now? Time in American Literature,” is free and open to the public.
Weinstein is the author of five books on American literature and culture, including Introduction to the Oxford Classical Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter; Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; and The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe. She is a professor of English and executive officer for the humanities at California Institute of Technology.
The Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature, founded in 2004, creates a professional atmosphere to promote student criticism and challenge student critics. NUCL gives undergraduate and advanced high school students an opportunity to present their own scholarly papers or creative works in organized panels of their peers. Students are also invited to attend NUCL’s keynote lectures by noted academics and writers in the field of literature. Cosponsors include the University provost’s office, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the admissions office.
For more information contact the English department at 503-943-7264 or english@up.edu.