Aesthetics Out of Bounds

The next installment of the Aesthetics Out of Bounds: History and Art Outside the Frame Lecture Series presents:

Colin MacCabe "The Films of Neil Jordan" Monday, January 30, 2006 - 5:00 PM Adamson Wing (Baker Hall 136A) Carnegie Mellon University

Colin MacCabe teaches Literature in the 17th-Century and Literature and Media in the 20th-Century. His research interests include: history of English since 1500, psychoanalysis, Joyce, film, and linguistics. He is also head of research at the British Film Institute in London. Colin MacCabe will be speaking about the films of Neil Jordan, director of Butcher Boy, and Breakfast On Pluto. MacCabe is the author of James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word, Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics, Tracking the Signifier, and Diary of a Young Soul Rebel (with Isaac Julien). He is also editor of Signs of the Times: Introductory Readings in Textual Semiotics, The Talking Cure: Essays in Psychoanalysis and Language, High Theory/Low Culture, The Linguistics of Writing, Futures for English, and James Joyce: New Perspectives. He is also an editor of the journal Critical Quarterly.

Aesthetics Out of Bounds is a series of free public lectures being offered at Carnegie Mellon University during the fall 2005 and spring of 2006. Sponsored by the Center for the Arts in Society with a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the series features a distinguished group of internationally recognized scholars who will discuss the plastic, visual, performing, and literary arts in multiple historical contexts. Drawing scholars from the United States and Europe, the series will chart out new directions in the fields of aesthetics, arts historiography, critical theory and visual culture for a broad and intellectually engaged audience.

For more information about the series please visit; http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/mwitmore/aesthetics/index.html