Keynote Speaker Announcement

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Announcement:

We are delighted to announce that Professor Mark Osteen has agreed to
deliver the keynote address at the upcoming conference "Critical Exchanges:
Economy and Culture in the Literature of Russia."  The conference will be
held on May 7-8, 2004 at Northwestern University.  Professor Osteen will be
speaking on the future of econo-critical studies, with special emphasis on
Gift Theory and its challenge to economism.

Sincerely,

James Driscoll (Harvard)
Susan McReynolds Oddo (Northwestern)

About Mark Osteen:

Mark Osteen is the editor of "New Economic Criticism: Studies at the
Intersection of Literature and Economics"  (Routledge, 1999).   His
introduction to this volume has been acknowledged as one of the most
wide-ranging and sensitive reviews of current econo-critical approaches
ever written.  Prof. Osteen followed this ground-breaking volume with a
detailed study of gift exchange in "The Question of the Gift" Essays Across
Disciplines"  (Routledge, 2002).  This collection of essays is the most
comprehensive look at Gift Theory since the ground-breaking work of Marcel
Mauss, and contains a wealth of possible applications to Russian cultural
and literary history.

In addition to his work as editor and contributor, Professor Osteen has
published numerous articles as well as a full-length econo-critical study
of Joyce's Ulysses entitled "The Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends Meet"
(Syracuse, 1995).  This book won the prestigious Donald Murphy Prize for
Best First Book in Irish Studies from the American Conference for Irish
Studies.  Mark Osteen is professor of English at Loyola College in Maryland.

About the conference:

The "Critical Exchanges" conference enjoys the generous support of the
Northwestern Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures in conjunction
with the Alumnae Board of Northwestern University.  Panel and paper
proposals can be sent to James Driscoll
(jsdrisc at fas.harvard.edu).  Conference details are available at
www.slavic.northwestern.edu/criticalexchanges

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