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Kurt Vonnegut and Hoosier Quality of Place to be topic of UE Lecture

Evansville, IN (03/26/2019) — The University of Evansville's annual Chutney Literary Conference is set for April 5-6 on UE's campus. UE students will be presenting critical papers, and will have the opportunity to win awards for their efforts.

The conference starts with the Melvin M. Peterson Literary Forum's Hemminger-Brown Lecture on Friday, April 5. The lecture will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Room 162 (Harkness Hall), Schroeder School of Business Building. The guest speaker will be Edward P. Comentale, professor of English, associate vice provost for arts and humanities, and director of the Arts and Humanities Council at Indiana University Bloomington. His topic will be "Kurt Vonnegut and Hoosier 'Quality of Place.'"

Comentale is the author of Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-Garde and Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song. He co-edits a scholarly book series on fan cultures for Indiana University Press, through which he has published The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies and The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center.

The conference ends on Saturday, April 6, with student panels planned for 9:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m., and noon in Rooms 271 and 272 in the Schroeder School of Business Building. The Grabill and Klinger Writing Prizes will also be awarded at this time.

For more information on UE's annual Chutney Literary Conference, call 812-488-2963.

University of Evansville

Amanda Campbell, (812) 488-2241, uerelations@evansville.edu

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