SMWC faculty member organizing panel for International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference
Posted on: 09/21
Christopher Hudson, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Languages and Literature at Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College, is organizing a panel presentation for the International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference, which will be held at Indiana State University Oct. 5-7.
Hudson's panel will be featured on Oct. 5 from 4 to 5 p.m., and the topic will be “Detecting Fiction.” Hudson will chair the panel and present his paper: “Total Relevance: Detecting Savagery in Roberto Bolano’s 2666." The panel also includes Dr. Corey Taylor from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, who will present “Detection, Paranoia, and Metafiction in Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice; and Dr. Sean Kinch from Montgomery Bell Academy, presenting his paper “A Jewish Marlowe: The Alt-Reality of Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union.”
The panel will focus on these recent novels and the genre of detective and crime fiction. Panel participants will discuss how each author manages and manipulates the genre in ways that reflect not only on the literary but also the literal practice of detection.
Hudson is an associate professor of English and the chair of the Department of Languages and Literature at SMWC. He received a Ph.D. in English, a M.A. in Latin American Studies, and a B.A. in Plan II (Honors Liberal Arts) from The University of Texas at Austin.
The Department of Languages and Literature is the heart of Saint Mary of the Woods College’s liberal arts curriculum. The Department is the home to classes in English (composition, literature, and creative writing), Spanish, French, Philosophy, and the Humanities. The department also sponsors biannual literary readings, Harvest Lights and Primavera, and Aurora, the Woods’ literary magazine. Seven full-time faculty members represent over 75 years of inspired teaching and service at The Woods.
For additional information about the Department of Languages and Literature at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, contact the SMWC Office of Admission by email at smwcadms@smwc.edu or by phone at 812-535-5106 or 1-800-926-SMWC. More information about Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College is also available online at www.smwc.edu.
The International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference, sponsored by the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Indiana State University, will have more than 100 attendees from 10 different countries, and more than 70 papers will be presented. For more information, visit http://www.indstate.edu/ccj/popcultureconference/.
