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Russian Scholar Evgenii Kazartcev to Speak about Northern Renaissance Poetry

November 7, 2012

Russian scholar Evgenii Kazartcev will speak about Northern Renaissance poetry, offering the lecture, "The Nature and Origins of Iambic Verse: Early English, Dutch, German and Slavic Iambic Verse," at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, in UNC Asheville's New Hall, room 118. This event is free and open to the public.

Kazartcev, of St. Petersburg State University in Russia, has come to the U.S. under the Fulbright Scholar Program and is senior research fellow at Dartmouth University for the 2012-13 academic year. His visit to UNC Asheville is sponsored by UNC Asheville's humanities program and the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship. For more information, call 828.251.6808.