The 22nd ELLAK Lecture Series
September 16 - November 25 (Thursdays), 1999
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 Theme: "Reading American Literature as cultural Text"

 September 16, 1999 (Week 1)

Topic:          "Reading American Culture through Wendy Wassertein's Drama"
Speaker:     Professor Lee Haiyoung, Sangmyung University
Moderator: Professor Oh Kyungshim, Kangwon National University

 September 23, 1999   

Chusok (Korean Thanksgiving Days)
 

 September 30, 1999 (Week 2)

Topic:          "Prison Named Society: The Study of Faulkner's The Wild Palms"
Speaker:     Professor Park Jung Oh, Myungji University
Moderator: Professor Kang Hee, Taegu University

 October 7, 1999 (Week 3)

Topic:          "Our Body Is Battlefield! - Racial/Sexual Identity and Hegemony of American Culture in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye"
Speaker:     Professor Ko Gap Hee, Hanshin University
Moderator: Professor Chun Seung Hei, Air Force Academy

 Octeber 14, 1999 (Week 4)

Topic:          "America in American Poetry"
Speaker:     Professor Choi Byong Hyon, Honam University
Moderator: Professor Yoe Hongsang, Korea University

 October 21, 1999 (Week 5)

Topic:          "The Politics of Innocence and Ideology in Walt Disney's Feature Films"
Speaker:     Professor Shim Kyung Seok, Soonchunhyang University
Moderator: Professor Yoh Keonjong, Sookmyung Women's University

 October 28, 1999 (Week 6)

Topic:         "Politics of Female Bodies Represented on Contemporary American Stage"
Speaker:     Professor Hwang Hoon Sung, Dongguk University
Moderator: Professor Cho Sook Hee, Chungang University

 November 4, 1999 (Week 7)

Topic:          "E. L. Doctorrow: His Historical Consciousness and Cultural Critique"
Speaker:     Professor Park Yup, Korea University
Moderator: Professor Koh Ji Moon, Chonnam National University

 November 11 1999 (Week 8)

Topic:         "Embracing the Other in High Modern Poetry: Ezra Pound"
Speaker:     Professor Kim Joon Hwan, Ewha Womans University
Moderator: Professor Hong Kyung Joo, Sookmyung Women's University 

 November 18, 1999 (Week 9)

Topic:        "Gays, Angels, America in the Nineties - Tony Kushner's Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes"
Speaker:     Professor Lee Hee Won, Seoul National University
Moderator: Professor Jun Joon Taek, Korea University

 November 25, 1999 (Week 10)

Topic:     "Democratic Ideal in William Wells Brown's Clotel"
Speaker:   Professor Kim Myung Ja, English Catholic University
Moderator: Professor Kim Soon Sik, English, Myungji University