On Thursday, October 8, at 8:00 p.m., in the Balkans Room of the Overman Student Center, Michael Martin, Lecturer in English and Co-Director of the Nancy Geshke Writing Center at Marygrove College, Detroit, Michican, will deliver the Victor J. Emmett, Jr., Memorial Lecture.

Mr. Martin’s lecture topic will be “The Mystical Body of Romanticism.” The lecture is free and open to the public.  A brief award ceremony and reception in the Heritage Room will follow the lecture.

Mr. Martin is the winner of the Sixteenth Annual Emmett Award for the best article on a literary topic published in The Midwest Quarterly in 2009.

The Emmett Memorial Award and Lecture are sponsored by the Emmett family, The Midwest Quarterly, and the English Department of Pittsburg State.  The award is given in memory of the late Dr. Victor J. Emmett, Jr., who, before his death in 1990, was for twenty-three years a Professor of English at Pittsburg State, where he served at various times as Chairperson of the English Department, Acting Dean of Graduate Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of The Midwest Quarterly.