BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14465-3966ffeb43dbaaef37bcd28c2f09b9ac@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260527T062835Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T153000 SUMMARY:Faculty Invites: The Last Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson in the American Century DESCRIPTION:\nAs a student and\, eventually\, professor\, Norman Holmes Pearson changed the story of American literature\, putting modernist poe try (especially by women) at its center. He was one of the founders of t he discipline of American studies\, and helped forge the alliance betwee n universities\, foundations and professional societies\, and the nation al-security state in the 1950s and 1960s. And he was a spy. During World War II he created and headed X-2\, the OSS’s counterintelligence branch \, and helped design (and recruit for) the Central Intelligence Agency. In this talk\, Greg Barnhisel will give an overview of Pearson’s unique career as a literary fixer\, secret agent\, cultural diplomat\, academic bureaucrat\, and one of the architects of the American Century.\n\nGreg Barnhisel is professor of English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh\ , Pennsylvania. He is the author of James Laughlin\, New Directions\, an d the Remaking of Ezra Pound (2005)\, Cold War Modernists: Art\, Literat ure\, and American Cultural Diplomacy (2015)\, and Code Name Puritan: No rman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry\, Espionage\, and American Po wer (2024).\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/the-las t-puritan/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

As a student an d, eventually, professor, Norman Holmes Pearson changed the story of Ame rican literature, putting modernist poetry (especially by women) at its center. He was one of the founders of the discipline of American studies , and helped forge the alliance between universities, foundations and pr ofessional societies, and the national-security state in the 1950s and 1 960s. And he was a spy. During World War II he created and headed X-2, t he OSS’s counterintelligence branch, and helped design (and recruit for) the Central Intelligence Agency. In this talk, Greg Barnhisel will give an overview of Pearson’s unique career as a literary fixer, secret agen t, cultural diplomat, academic bureaucrat, and one of the architects of the American Century.

Greg Barnhisel is professor of English at Du quesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of J ames Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound (2005 ), Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplo macy (2015), and Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at th e Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power (2024).

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/the-last-puritan/

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