Academics and emotion will figure into Dr. Cari Carpenters lecture on the teaching of American Indian writing next week at West Virginia University.

Seeing Red: Teaching American Indian Literaturesis the title of Carpenters lecture, which will be from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, in Hatfields Room B, in the Mountainlair. The lecture is free, but attendees should bring or buy their own lunch.

Carpenter will draw from her new book,Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality and American Indians,which will be published next year by The Ohio State University Press.

Sentimentality was often used as a literary device by Native American authors of the 19th century to tear down the prevailing stereotypes of the American Indian as either stoic or savage, Carpenter writes in her book.

Emotion can also be channeled to harnessproductive angerfor a more meaningful experience in the classroom, she said.

Carpenter earned degrees in English and psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and earned a dual-doctorate in English and Womens Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

She was also a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Kalamazoo College and has authored several articles on early American Indian women writers and feminist pedagogy.

Her lecture is sponsored by the Center for Womens Studies and Native American Studies Program, which are both in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.

For more information, contact Dr. Barbara Howe, director of the Center for Womens Studies, at barbara.howe.@mail.wvu.edu or 304-293-2339, ext. 1155.