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Professor Mark Allison Delivers The 2022-2023 Benjamin T. Spencer Lecture
February 21, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST
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Professor Mark Allison is our distinguished 2022-2023 Benjamin T. Spencer Lecturer. A member of the OWU faculty since 2007, Allison specializes in the literature and culture of 19th-century Britain. His research interests include utopian literature and theory; socialism, working-class political culture, and Marxism; and the British novel.
A member of the OWU faculty since 2007, Allison specializes in the literature and culture of 19th-century Britain. His research interests include utopian literature and theory, socialism, working-class political culture, Marxism, and the British novel. His recently published book, Imagining Socialism: Aesthetics, Anti-politics, and Literature in Britain, 1817–1918, explores the intersections of socialism and literature in the long 19th century, with special emphasis on their shared antipathy to institutional politics.
His presentation, entitled “The Peaceful Revolutionist: Josiah Warren and the Story of Utopia, Ohio,” is sponsored by the OWU Department of English. Learn more at www.owu.edu/English.
This event will be held in the Bayley Room of Beeghly Library. Masks are optional. The event is free and open to the public
