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Blackwell Professor of the Humanities M. Thomas Inge |
M. Thomas Inge, the Blackwell Professor of the Humanities at R-MC, will present a lecture on the life of Charles Schulz on
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at the University of Mary Washington. The lecture, which is
free and open to the public, will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will take place in Dodd Auditorium, George Washington Hall. Inge’s lecture is part of the University’s Chappell Lecture Series, “Great Lives: Biographical Approaches to History.” The popular series includes some of history’s most fascinating figures, discussed by some of today’s foremost biographers.
Inge, who edited
My Life with Charlie Brown (University Press of Mississippi, 2010), will analyze the life and work of “Peanuts” creator Charles Schulz. The book is a collection of autobiographical essays, introductions, articles, reviews, and lectures that tell the personal tale of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz.
Schulz’s prose serves to “elucidate his life and his art, and clarify themes of modern life, philosophy and religion that are interwoven into his beloved, groundbreaking comic strip,” according to the University Press of Mississippi. The book, which Inge edited and wrote an introduction for, includes Schulz’s comics criticism, his introductions to Peanuts volumes, his essays about cartooning and philosophy, his commentary on Christianity, his newspaper articles about the creation of his characters, and more.
Inge joined the faculty at Randolph-Macon College in 1984. He earned his B.A. at Randolph-Macon College and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University. An article Inge wrote about Charlie Brown and Peanuts was published in the Fredericksburg
Free-Lance Star on January 23, 2011.
Click on Schulz to read the article.
For more information about the lecture series at the University of Mary Washington, call (540) 654-1065.