English Speaker March 6: David Bentley on Mean Girls

[John Savarese]

Dear Colleagues, Students, and Friends,

Please join us for the sixth and final event in this year’s English Language & Literature Speakers Series. Our concluding speaker will be David Bentley (University of Western Ontario), who will visit on Friday, March 6 to give a talk titled “Mean Girls: Queen Bees, Wannabees, and the Education of Cady Heron.” Bentley is Carl F. Klinck Professor in Canadian Literature at the University of Western Ontario. His lecture will examine the structure, sources, ethics, and cultural messages that make Mean Girls more than a movie about wearing pink on Wednesdays. The talk will take place in PAS 2438 at 2:00 p.m. Details are available here: https://uwaterloo.ca/english/events/speaker-series-david-bentley.

Professor Bentley has written and edited extensively in the fields of Canadian literature and culture and Victorian literature and art, and serves as editor in chief at Canadian Poetry Press (www.canadianpoetry.org). In addition to his work on Mean Girls, current projects include a collection of essays on modernism in Canada and an essay on the stories Alice Munro wrote as a student at Western.

Speakers Series events are open to the university community and the public. Please feel free to circulate this email and the attached poster widely. We hope to see many of you there!

Warm regards,
—
John Savarese
Assistant Professor
Department of English Language and Literature
University of Waterloo
https://uwaterloo.ca/english/people-profiles/john-savarese

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