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Anna Kornbluh
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Literature, film, and critical theory professor delivers Culler Lecture

by : Alex McNeil , A&S Communications

A leading literary theorist with expertise in cultural aesthetics, marxism, and psychoanalysis will deliver this year’s Culler Theory Lecture at Cornell’s Society for the Humanities. Anna Kornbluh, professor of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, will address "Immediacy: Some Theses on Contemporary Style" on Tuesday, March 7, from 5 – 6:30 p.m. in the Guerlac Room at the A.D. White…

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The unexpected importance of the sea sponge in classical history

by : Alex McNeil , A&S Communications

Looking beyond the sculptures, pottery, and architectural ruins of the Graeco-Roman era in this year’s annual Society for the Humanities Invitational Lecture, art historian Verity Platt will present her research on a valuable but unexpected object of ancient natural history: the humble sea sponge. Platt, professor of classics and the history of art and visual studies in the College of Arts and…