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Russ Castronovo "Pamphlets, Propaganda, and Public Opinion: A Forgotten Critique of the Military-Industrial Complex" 8 pm, Friday, February 29 - Room 315, Altgeld Hall Russ Castronovo is the Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work explores the boundaries of the literary and political, especially globalism, militarism, and African American studies. His most recent work includes Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era, 2007, and Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States, 2001. In the works: revolutionary propaganda, the origins of American literature, and the military-industrial (mercantile) complex. |