Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), 'Whitman, Censorship, and the Question of Truly Free Verse'
| Dates: | 19 March 2025 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:15 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Current University students, General public, Post 16 |
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Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: 'Whitman, Censorship, and the Question of Truly Free Verse'
Venue: Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre
Organised by Dr. Gordon Fraser
Karen Karbiener is an American scholar, writer, curator, and cultural activist and has been teaching at New York University since 2003. Winner of the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress and a Fulbright recipient, she has published widely on Whitman, including an edition of Leaves of Grass, two audiobooks on the poet’s life and influence, a book introducing Whitman’s poetry to children, and a collaboration with illustrator Brian Selznick on an experiential edition of Live Oak, with Moss, Whitman’s secret same-sex love poems. She was the co-curator with Susan Tane of Poet of the Body: New York’s Walt Whitman (Grolier Club, NY; 2019) and is the author of a book based on the exhibition (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
As an active public scholar, she is invested in bringing complex literary content to a diverse public. A native New Yorker, Karen is president and a founding member of the Walt Whitman Initiative, a NYC-based 501c3 nonprofit organization serving as a think tank and enabler of poetry-related events and community activism, including the open-access Tane Poetry Library at South Street Seaport (inaugurated in 2022) and the organization of New York’s annual marathon reading of Whitman’s epic “Song of Myself” (in its 21st year in 2024). She has led walking tours of Whitman's New York for over two decades and is currently completing a biography of the poet.
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