Nearly fifty faculty, staff, undergraduate and graduate students attended the lecture of Professor Elaine Auyoung of the UM Twin Cities English Department in the Rotunda of the Kathryn A. Martin Library from 3:30 to 4:30 pm on Thursday, October 10.
Students in the Linguistics program in ELWS found connection to her presentation through a shared interest in cognitive science. Students in Writing Studies found her passion for the effects of a text on the reader attractive, as her passion could inform their own thinking about the rhetorical effects of a text. And literature students and aficionados connected with her deep reading of great works of fiction.
This presentation was one of many in the ELWS Colloquium series, which brings our interdisciplinary department together to discuss research, scholarship, and creative activity. For more information, visit /departments/elws