Steven Meyer
Associate Professor of English Literature
Washington University

Wednesday • December 1, 2004 • 5:00 pm
200 College Hall, 3450 Woodland Walk
(off 34th b. Walnut & Spruce)
NOTE Room change (was 3619 Locust Walk)

As a student at the Harvard Psychological Laboratory, Gertrude Stein carried out experiments in automatic writing; as an expatriate in Paris, she devoted herself to literary experimentation. Leading expert on the science-literature interface, Steven Meyer explores connections between recent research into "exceptional mental states" and Stein's boundary-breaking writing.

Steven Meyer teaches modern poetry and modern intellectual history at Washington University in St. Louis. His study, Irresistable Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science, was published in 2001 (Stanford University Press).

His current projects include a study of modern poetry entitled "Rhythms of Thought: Twentieth-Century Poetry after the Fact" and a second volume on Stein, "Gertrude Stein among the Neuroscientists."