DATE: Thursday, March 6

TIME: 7 p.m.

LOCATION: Doc Rando Hall on the UNLV campus

Distinguished Yale University scholar and theorist Peter Brooks will give a presentation about the relationship between the study of literature and ideas from other disciplines, most notably psychoanalysis and the law. Brooks is one of our generation's most innovative thinkers and is a recent winner of the prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Achievement Award for his contributions to the Humanities. His lecture, titled "The Identity Paradigm," is part of the KVBC Lecture Series and is hosted by UNLV's Department of English. Brooks is the author of several landmark studies, including "Reading for the Plot," "Psychoanalysis and Storytelling," and "Body Work." His most recent books are "Henry James Goes to Paris," and "Realist Vision."

For additional information, please contact Peter Moore at 895-4366.