Public Lecture on Poe and Abortion

Feb 25th, 2019

Department of English

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Public Lecture on Poe and Abortion

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of English are delighted to welcome Dr. Dana Medoro (Department of English, University of Manitoba), who will be giving a public lecture on "Poe, Punctuation, and Abortion" on Friday evening at 8 pm in the Suncor Energy Hall in the Music Building at Memorial University. Dr. Medoro will be discussing the first Dupin story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," reading this crucial early work of detective fiction in relation to the nineteenth-century abortion debate. All are welcome to attend. Free parking is available in Lot 15B.