Poetry from the Great War

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Germaine F. Murray, PhD
Professor of English, Maryville University

"Poetry from the Great War'"
Sunday, February 24, 2019 THE RACQUET CLUB LADUE
1600 Log Cabin Lane
(enter by North 40 Drive off Clayton Rd)

Cocktails 12:30 ~ Lunch 1:00 Members $45 ~ Guests $50

Dr. Germaine F. Murray has been teaching English and Humanities courses at Maryville University for 27 years. She has taught courses in American, British and World Literature and in comparative culture. She developed several courses in Museum Studies, film literacy and has pioneered team teaching with colleagues in a variety of other disciplines. She has been the founding faculty member of Maryville's Study Abroad Program and has taught in Greece, the Czech Republic, London, Oxford, Italy, Scotland and Spain. She co-founded the Maryville Peace and Justice Prize and currently directs this effort.

Dr. Murray is also faculty advisor for Maryville's literary and art magazine and founder of its film literacy series. She has curated exhibits at Maryville University on World War I poetry, Shakespeare's Life and Times, Forgotten Voices of the Great War and the 1918 Flu Epidemic. She is currently collaborating on an exhibit to celebrate Walt Whitman's 200th birthday.

Her passion for the British poetic tradition will be apparent in Dr. Murray's PowerPoint presentation on the ubiquity of World I poetry. She will highlight several poets from Britain and demonstrate how the poetry of that war became so central in British cultural consciousness.

Also on the program is Jessica Hilliard's report on her experience as our 2018 TLab Scholar at the Globe Theatre in London last July. She looks forward to personally expressing her appreciation to the branch. An English Language Arts faculty member at Mehlville High School for the past 10 years, she is now able to share her unique TLab experience with the college credit Shakespeare's Plays course that she teaches, as well as in her sophomore and junior English courses.

Please send reservation check payable to E-SU, c/o Joan Buxton Falk (314-803-8927), 200 S. Brentwood 8A, St. Louis, MO 63105, and indicate any with whom you wish to be seated.

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