ACU professor Steven Moore to discuss Covid-19, race at virtual Landiss Lecture Feb. 11
The Landiss Lecture brings some of the nation's leading thought leaders to campus each year as part of this special series.
Kim Chaudoin |
Lipscomb University’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Department of English and Modern Languages presents a special virtual Landiss Lecture featuring Dr. Steven Moore in a discussion of “The Sun and Clouds Died Today: Reflections on Covid-19 and Race” on Thursday, Feb. 11.
The virtual lecture begins at 7 p.m. CST. It is free and open to the public. Register here to receive a link to the seminar. Viewers will be able to submit questions during the virtual lecture. The Landiss Lecture is sponsored annually by the Department of English and Modern Languages through the Morris P. Landiss Memorial English Fund.
Steven Moore
Moore is professor of English and chair-elect of the Department of Language and Literature at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, where he teaches undergraduate, graduate and honors courses. He also is director of the McNair Scholars program at ACU.
He is the author of The Cry of Black Rage in African American Literature: From Frederick Douglass to Richard Wright as well as a best-selling children’s book entitled Theodore Thumbs and its sequel, Theodore Thumbs and the Yellow Balloon. He is currently working on a book of his poetry called Black and Not Breathing.
Moore is the recipient of several teaching and scholarly awards, including the winner of three Teacher-of-the-Year awards, the Students’ Association Outstanding Faculty Member, and two Mentor-of-the Year awards. He received his bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The Landiss Lecture program was established by the late Morris P. Landiss, long-time chair of the Lipscomb University Department of English. He dreamed of bringing to the Lipscomb campus practicing writers, critics and scholars of national reputation to challenge the minds of those in Lipscomb’s academic community and in the community at-large. In the years since the series first presentation in 1985, the lectures have drawn notable speakers such as Bret Lott, George Garrett, Terry Kay, John Egerton, Wilma Dykeman, Robert Massie, Unita Blackwell, Sena Jeter Naslund, Emmy-winning film director Martin Doblmeier, R.T. “Rod” Smith, RoseAnn Benson, Constance Fulmer, Robert Hicks, Robert Morgan, Silas House and many others.