Michael Chaney: 2010 English Visiting Scholar

Michael Chaney, Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth (Ph.D., Indiana University), will speak on "Subject and History in The African American Graphic Novel" on Wednesday, March 24, at 6:30 p.m. in the Carondelet Symposium in the Lally School of Education on Madison Avenue at The College of Saint Rose. Chaney’s research and teaching focus on race representation, mixed race identity, and the interrelationship of literature and visual culture. His book, FugitiveVision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative, is available from Indiana University Press. In addition to many essays in journals such as MELUS and Modern Fiction Studies, Chaney has Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Graphic Novels and Autobiography forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Chaney joins a group of distinguished scholars and writers sponsored by the English Department in the School of Arts and Humanities at The College of Saint Rose. Each year, the English Department Visiting Scholar/Writer Series hosts a scholar or professional writer who gives a public lecture or reading on-campus and interacts with students in English graduate classes. Visiting scholars have included literary and social theorist Susan Bordo; literary critic Susan Gubar; writer and environmentalist Bill McKibbon; and, in 2009, literary biographer Brenda Wineapple.