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Keat Murray, PhD
Close Reading and Critical Thinking
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Convocation Center
NORTH
Room (in pink)
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Morning Workshop (10:00-11:10 AM)
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KEAT MURRAY, PhD
Dr. Keat Murray specializes in early American and nineteenth-century American literature, with particular interest in James Fenimore Cooper and Native American studies. In addition to his scholarship in these areas, Dr. Murray has directed numerous undergraduate projects at Cal U in digital archiving for regional and international communities. Before joining Cal U’s Department of English in 2013, Murray taught high school English in a Pennsylvania public school for twenty-one years and college English for five years.
Dr. Murray’s workshop, “Close Reading and Critical Thinking,” will apply various critical approaches to teach close reading and critical thinking as complementary skills. Toward this end, workshop activities will explore a few selected short works in American literature through strands of historicism, cultural studies, textual studies, and staples of formalism.