Adam Gopnik to deliver the 2011-2012 Munro Beattie Lecture at Carleton

The Dean of FASS and the English Department are delighted to announce that the 2011-2012 Munro Beattie lecture will be delivered by Adam Gopnik.  Gopnik, a writer for the New Yorker magazine, is one of the most prominent writer-commentators in North America, and one of the most gifted essayists writing in English.

Biography

Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. During his tenure at the magazine, he has written fiction and humor pieces, book reviews, profiles, reporting pieces, and more than a hundred stories for “The Talk of the Town” and “Comment.” His books, ranging from essay collections about Paris and food to children’s novels, include High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture (1990), Paris to the Moon (2000), The King in the Window (2005), Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York (2006), Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (2009), The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food (2011), and Winter: Five Windows on the Season (2011). Gopnik has won the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism three times, and also the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. He is an active lecturer, and delivered the Canadian Broadcasting Corporations Massey Lectures in 2011. Gopnik lives in New York.

The Munro Beattie Lecture

The Munro Beattie Lecture was launched in 1985 to honour the department’s founding chair and his contributions to literary studies in Canada.

An important principle of the lecture series has been to invite writers and critics who can speak on issues of importance to the general public, as well as the academic world. The first lecture was given by Munro’s friend and colleague, Eli Mandel, and the second by Northrop Frye. Since then the series has been an important annual event at Carleton, sponsoring a challenging group of literary critics and creative writers, including Linda Hutcheon, Robert Kroetsch, Jeanette Armstrong, Roy Miki, Carol Shields, George Elliott Clarke, Mark Kingwell, Eleanor Wachtel and Alistair MacLoed.

Gopnik on his love for and fascination with winter

Adam Gopnik, “Rethinking Winter and Spring
Date: March 12, 2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: 360 Tory Building, Carleton University
This is a free public lecture; all are welcome. A free reception will follow the talk.

More information on the history of the Munro Beattie Lecture Series

 

For further information please contact

andrew_wallace@carleton.ca