Practically Canadian: Jack Kerouac's
Unpublished Writings About the North
Dr. Audrey Sprenger
Date and time:
WEDNESDAY November 19, 4:30 pm
Place:
John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill
Open to all members of the public
Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D is an ethnographer, field producer
and professor of sociology. Currently writing the authorized biography
of novelist Jack Kerouac with John Sampas, Executor of the Jack Kerouac
Literary Estate, she is currently an Affiliated Faculty at the Charles Warren Center for American Studies at Harvard University, as well
as a Visiting Scholar at the Center For Urban Research and Policy at Columbia University.
Nationally recognized for her series of publicly accessible, university accredited courses, she has taught on the
sociology, geography, gender studies, law and South Asian Studies
faculties at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of
Denver, created artistic, cultural, literary and political programming
and events for
the Denver Public Library, PBS' Masterpiece Theatre, the Denver Art
Museum, Rocky Mountain PBS and The Nation magazine and often
collaborates with composer, conductor and multi-instrumentalist David Amram.
Dr. Sprenger's visit to the University
of Vermont is sponsored by the University of Vermont's Canadian Studies
Program and the Area and International Studies Program.
For more information, contact Paul Martin,
Director of Canadian Studies and Assistant Professor of English at
656.8451 or [log in to unmask]