Exhibit Public Opening and Reception "In Honor of Edgar Allan Poe: An Afternoon of Stories and Songs with The Tell Tale Hearts"

See the Richmond storytelling group's performance
4 p.m. - 6 p.m., Friday, March 27th
Auditorium of the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library
Sponsored by The Raven Society

The Edgar A. Poe Bicentennial Symposium (1809–2009) "Rethinking the Center, Remapping the Culture: Poe and the American Renaissance"

Led by Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan University Professor of English, U.Va., and J. Gerald Kennedy, William A. Read Professor of English, LSU, and Lillian Gary Taylor Visiting Fellow in American Literature, University of Virginia Library
Friday - Saturday, April 3 and 4
Auditorium of the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library
The Poe Symposium is generously sponsored by the University of Virginia's Page-Barbour Lecture Endowment, the English Department, American Studies Program, and Harrison Institute.

Gallery Talks


Poe and Visual Art: Edouard Manet's The Raven and the Watercolors of Arthur Rackham

Katherine Baker, PhD Candidate, McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia
Wednesday, April 1, 4 p.m.
Main Gallery, Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library

Poe and Nabokov

Julian Connolly, Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia
Wednesday, April 8, 12 p.m.
Main Gallery, Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library

Poe and Science

Deandra Little, Assistant Professor, English and Teaching Resource Center, University of Virginia
Wednesday, April 15, 12 p.m.
Main Gallery, Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library

Virginia Festival of the Book


Poe and the Power of Imagination

Author Harry Lee Poe will discuss his recently-published book, Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to his Tell-Tale Stories (New York: Metro Books, 2008), as part of the celebration of the Virginia Festival of the Book 2009.
Friday, March 20, 2 p.m.
Auditorium, Harrison Institue/Small Special Collections Library


For more information, please see the Harrison Institute website or call: 434.243.2184 for more information.