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The panel discussion, titled “The Eco View: Willa Cather Among Other Writers,” will be held at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center.
Panelists will include Ron Rash, WCU’s Parris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Culture; Brian Railsback, dean of WCU’s Honors College; English department faculty members Annette Debo and Mae Claxton; and WCU student Teegan Dykeman. They will be discussing the writings of Cather, Hilda Doolittle, William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy and John Steinbeck in the context of eco-criticism, Railsback said.
Railsback serves as a board member for Together We Read, and WCU helps sponsor the effort, which is in its fifth year. Together We Read has received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to administer The Big Read in the region during the first half of 2008 with a series of events relating to Cather’s novel.
The Feb. 25 event at WCU is open to everyone free of charge. For more information, contact WCU’s Honors College at (828) 227-7383, or click on the Web at http://togetherweread.org/.
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