Wednesday, March 23, 7 p.m., ELC Gallery Theatre (LC 301)
Michael Cobb is Professor of English at the University of Toronto with cross appointments with the Centre for the Study of Religion, the Drama Centre, and the Women and Gender Studies Institute. Cobb has written on Baldwin’s oeuvre and is the author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and Racial Blasphemies: Race and Religious Irreverance in American Literature. His next book, Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled, will also appear soon from New York University Press. His essays on race, sexuality, and literature have also appeared in Callaloo, GLQ, and the University of Toronto Quarterly. Cobb holds an M.A. in Religion and Literature from the University of Chicago and a Doctor of Philosophy in English from Cornell University.
