Richard Powers, Swanlund Chair and professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, presented ''Cognitive Science, Disability and Selfhood: A Conversation with Novelist Richard Powers'' on April 26.

Joining him were Steven Schiff, Brush Chair and professor of engineering; Chloe Silverman, assistant professor in the Science, Technology, and Society program; Elana Farace, associate professor of neurosurgery and health evaluation sciences, College of Medicine; and Jenell Johnson, graduate student in English.


Powers will also presente''The Moving Finger'' on April 27 at 3 p.m. in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium in the Palmer Museum of Art.

Powers is the author of nine novels and the winner of the 2006 National Book Award for The Echo Maker. He has been a MacArthur Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award, the Corrington Award for Literary Excellence and the Dos Passos Prize for Literature.

The event is co-sponsored by Disability Studies; Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture; and the University Libraries.

Courtesy: COE