News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu Spring 2004 news releases Public Information home News archive Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 10/29/04   Click on image for publication quality photo  SOUTHEASTERN HONORS LECTURE FOCUSES ON VIRGIL      HAMMOND – The Southeastern Louisiana University Honors Program lecture series continues Nov. 3 with “Virgil’s Roman Revision of the Heroic Life” by Bainard Cowan of Louisiana State University.      The free program is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall.       Cowan’s lecture is the second of three fall semester Honors Program lectures funded by a Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities grant. Titled “Reading the Great Epics for a Higher Education,” the lecture series will conclude with “Sir Gawain, Illustrator of the Liberal Arts” by Jack White of Mississippi State University on Nov. 30.      Cowan, a member of LSU’s English faculty, is the coeditor of  “Theorizing American Literature: Hegel, the Sign, and History” and “Exiled Waters: Moby-Dick and the Crisis of Allegory.” A graduate of Yale University, his academic interests include world literatures and civilizations, American literature in world context, science, technology and literature.      For additional information about the lecture and the Honors Program, contact Director James Walter at 985-549-2135 or visit www.selu.edu/honors.