Dr. Colleen Eils Guest Lectures

Dr. Colleen Eils visited Patrick Query's EN351: World Literature class for four days of discussion on the Salvador Plascencia novel The People of Paper. A specialist in contemporary metafiction, Dr. Eils led the class through investigations of gender, representation, war, surveillance, and the porous line between reality and fiction in this experimental novel. Dr. Eils tells her students that in the study of literature we resolve nothing; rather, we learn to ask more and more questions. In these meetings, Cadets pursued question after question toward a richer understanding of the ways writing and reading, speech and silence, and looking and hiding shape lives on the page and off it.