News Release

Humanities lecture to address how we learn to read pictures

September 3, 2008

The Fall 2008 Humanities Graduate Lecture at Penn State Harrisburg will feature a presentation on how we learn to read pictures.

The lecture by Dartmouth College Professor Emeritus of English James A.W. Heffernan will be in the Gallery Lounge of the Olmsted Building at 7 p.m. October 6. The presentation is free and open to the public. For information, phone 717-948-6194.

Well-known for his work in the interrelations of literature and the visual arts, Dr. Heffernan’s lecture is entitled “Literacy and Picturacy: How Do We Learn to Read Pictures.” His books include The Re-Creation of Landscape: A Study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable, and Turner and Cultivating Picturacy.