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The Yale Club of Beijing Presents an Afternoon Master’s Tea

From the Popular to the Exemplary:

James Fenimore Cooper’s Reception at Home and Abroad 

Pamela Schirmeister

Associate Dean

The Graduate School

Sunday, July 11, 2010 

4:00 p.m – 6:30 p.m

(Across the Street from the Lama Temple) | Phone: 6446 2073

Complimentary Admission for all Yale Club Members and their Guests 

Kindly RSVP by 5 pm on Friday, July 9, to events@yaleclubbeijing.org 

Due to limited capacity, we will only be able to accept reservations from the first 50 people who respond. When you email, please make sure to list your full name and Yale affiliation.

If you have not yet paid your membership dues for the 2010 calendar year, you may do so at the door of the event. Dues are 100 RMB for 2005-2010 Yale College graduates, and 300 RMB for all other Yale alumni and affiliates.

Pamela Schirmeister is lecturer in English and associate dean of the Graduate School at Yale. She earned both her B.A. and her Ph.D. in English from Yale. She worked as a reporter for Time Inc. in Paris and has taught at Middlebury, New York University, the Universities of Konstanz and Tuebingen.  Her research interests include 19th century American literature, the relation between literature and philosophy and psychoanalytic theory and criticism.  She has published articles in all of these areas as well as The Consolations of Space: The Place of Romance in Hawthorne, Melville and James (Stanford University Press, 1990), Less Legible Meanings: Between Poetry and Philosophy in the Work of Emerson (Stanford University Press, 1999), and an edition of Emerson’s Representative Men (Marsilio, 1996).  She is working on a co-authored study of James Fenimore Cooper with April Alliston, a professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton. 

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