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Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003
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Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

"From Gift to Game: Prizes in Contemporary Culture"
Featuring Jim English

KWH, University of Pennsylvania | Thursday, April 20, 2000; 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Free at Door (Reservation not required)

Organized by Aaron Levy, Gregory Flaxman
Theorizing Series



Project Website (with 82 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11038/

Jim English received his MA from the University of Chicago and his PhD from Stanford, specializing in modernist and postmodernist literature. His book Comic Transactions: Literature, Humor, and the Politics of Community in Twentieth-Century Britain was published by Cornell in 1994. He is currently completing a book on prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value, with a working title of An Economy of Prestige. He is co-editor, with Lisa Brawley, of Postmodern Culture, an electronic journal distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press. Jim English is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.