Professor Giorgio Mariani is a leading scholar of American literature in Italy, and teaches American literature at the “Sapienza” University of Rome. His latest book, Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature, was just published in December 2015 by the University of Illinois Press.  This talk will include a discussion of poetry and protest by Iraq War veterans. 

Co-Sponsored by:  Department of Anthropology, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois Press, Center for Advanced Study. 

For more information contact David Schrag, Program Coordinator, International Forum for U.S. Studies. 217-244-4203, dschrag@illinois.edu 

Thanks to the Center for Advanced Study for this information item.

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