Event: 4th Annual Gaines Lecture Series

Dr. Thadious Davis will deliver the 4th Annual Ernest J. Gaines Lecture on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette on Thursday, Oct. 27, at 11 a.m. to noon.

Dr. Davis, who is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a lecture titled "The Afterlives of Southern Rememory: Ernest J. Gaines' Narratology."

Dr. Davis is the author of Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature (2011), Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses (2003), and Faulkner’s “Negro”: Art and the Southern Context (1982).

The lecture will be held in the Gaines Center hallway, located on the 3rd floor.

The event is free and open to the public.