Community Corner
"How NOT to Save the Humanities" by Dr. Christina Bieber Lake
The office of the Dean of Humanities and Theological Studies at
Wheaton College hosts a lecture by the newly-appointed Clyde S. Kilby chair, Dr.
Christina Bieber Lake.
In her lecture, titled "How NOT to Save the Humanities," Dr. Lake will talk
about the dangers in the ideas advanced by theorist E.O. Wilson and others who
favor the effort to save the humanities by subsuming them under a scientific
methodology. Dr. Lake will suggest that interdisciplinary cooperation, not
consilience, is the best way for the liberal arts to move forward in our rapidly
changing world.
Dr. Lake has been professor of English at Wheaton College
since 1999. She teaches classes in contemporary American literature and literary
theory. Her latest book, Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction,
Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood, will be released in September
of 2013 by the University of Notre Dame press.
Free and open to the public, this lecture takes place in room 339 of
Blanchard Hall. For more information,
call 630.752.5069.