Lindsay Reckson and Philip Maciak discuss their new books.
Prof. Rebecca Wanzo has a public conversation with scholars Reckson and Maciak.
Wednesday
4:00–5:30PM
Danforth University Center 276
Washington University in St. Louis
One Brookings Drive
Saint Louis, MO 63130
Join Lindsay Reckson (Assistant Professor of English, Haverford College) and Phillip Maciak (Lecturer in English and American Culture Studies, Washington University in St. Louis) in conversation with Rebecca Wanzo (Associate Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis) about their new books, which take on secularism in American cultural production; scenes of ecstatic performance in literature, photography, and early film; and the complex interplay of race, religion, and representation in the post-Reconstruction US.
Read more about Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature at NYU Press. Read more about The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era at Columbia University Press.
Sponsored by the Washington University in St. Louis Performing Arts Department, American Culture Studies, and the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics.
Join Lindsay Reckson (Assistant Professor of English, Haverford College) and Phillip Maciak (Lecturer in English and American Culture Studies, Washington University in St. Louis) in conversation with Rebecca Wanzo (Associate Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis) about their new books, which take on secularism in American cultural production; scenes of ecstatic performance in literature, photography, and early film; and the complex interplay of race, religion, and representation in the post-Reconstruction US.
