Clewell鈥檚 lecture will explore how remembering the contentious process of memorializing May 4, 1970, may help us put into practice the principles of plurality as we pursue a more equitable future. Clewell also curated an exhibit of the same name for the May 4 Visitors Center at Kent State. The exhibit will open at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 28.
The lecture series honors the legacy of Kent State Professor Emeritus of Sociology Jerry M. Lewis, Ph.D., and advances the scholarship of May 4, 1970, and the Vietnam War era. Lewis taught at Kent State from 1966 until 2013. Serving as a faculty marshal in 1970, he witnessed the May 4, 1970, shootings firsthand, and has since devoted time to researching, memorializing and lecturing on the events of May 4. He remains an active leader and voice for legacy and study of May 4, 1970.
Clewell, who has been with the university since 2000, teaches courses in 20th-century British and Irish literature, critical theory, contemporary prose and graphic memoir. She is the author of 鈥淢ourning, Modernism, Postmodernism鈥� and editor of Modernism and Nostalgia: Bodies, Locations, Aesthetics. Her articles have appeared in such journals as PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
To read more about the lecture series, visit www.kent.edu/may-4-1970/jerry-m-lewis-may-4-lecture-series. For tickets, visit .
To learn more about Clewell, visit www.kent.edu/english/profile/tammy-clewell.
鈥淭he Power of Our Voices鈥� is the theme of this year鈥檚 May 4 Commemoration, which offers a return to in-person events for the first time since 2019. To learn more about the events marking this year鈥檚 commemoration, visit /may-4-1970/commemoration.
