February 10, 2005 SELINSGROVE, (Pa.) – Susquehanna University will hold an undergraduate literature conference on Monday, February 21. The day-long conference is designed to spotlight the writing and scholarship of Susquehanna students and to focus on the study and writing of literature in general. Michael Payne, John P. Crozer professor of English literature at Bucknell University, will give the keynote address, titled “Literary Study Today,” at 9 a.m. in Isaacs Auditorium of Seibert Hall. Student presentations of both scholarly and creative work in literature will follow throughout the day. The concluding event is a poetry reading by visiting writer Michael Waters at 7:30 p.m. in Isaacs Auditorium. Both the keynote address and poetry reading are free and open to the public. Payne is the author of five scholarly books and numerous articles and the editor of more than a dozen books. He specializes in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, cultural and critical theory, Milton and Blake, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury, biblical literature, and children’s literature. His most recent book is Life.after.theory, published in 2003. Waters is the author of seven collections of poetry, including his most recent, Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems. He teaches English at Salisbury University and is in residence this semester at Bucknell University. He comes to campus as part of the Visiting Writers Series, sponsored by The Writers Institute at Susquehanna University. The conference is sponsored by Susquehanna’s Department of English and Creative Writing. Contact: Victoria Kidd 570-372-4119 #vk/2360#