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Heller to study Gaines

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Jack Heller

Dr. Jack Heller, associate professor of English at Huntington University, has been selected to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “Ernest J. Gaines and the Southern Experience.”

The institute will be held May 30 through June 24 at the Ernest J. Gaines Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, in Lafayette, LA.

Heller and other scholars will study the works of Gaines, an African-American writer whose novels and short stories portray the struggles and triumphs of the African-American in the Southern landscape. His works include “A Lesson before Dying,” “A Gathering of Old Men” and “In My Father’s House.”

The Gaines Center houses the author’s manuscripts, correspondence, review of his works, speeches, interviews and other items related to his life and writing, which will be available to institute participants.

African-American literature is one of Heller’s primary research interests.