2:00 pm. Talking Jack: Rethinking Kerouac w Erik Mortenson & guests.
Join us for the launch of Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, Reappraisals (Bloomsbury Press). This recently published collection of essays is written for all of those interested in Kerouac’s life and writing. Come hear a panel discussion that will explore a wide range of Kerouac-related topics. Authors will not only talk about his work, including Kerouac’s visual art and lesser-known attempts at screenwriting, but we will also discuss how Kerouac lives on in archives, translations, and the public consciousness both here in the U.S. and globally. Erik Mortenson, the book’s co-editor who has published extensively on Jack Kerouac and the Beats, will host.
Erik Mortenson is a faculty member in English at Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor, Michigan. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as several books, including Capturing the Beat Moment: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence (2011), which won a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award; Ambiguous Borderlands: Shadow Imagery in Cold War American Culture (2016); and Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey (2018). He has also published The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation (2023), co-edited with Tony Trigilio, along with the memoir Kick Out the Bottom (2023), co-written with Christopher Kramer. Mortenson is also a translator whose work has appeared in journals such as Asymptote, Talisman, and Two Lines.
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