Columbia professor to discuss author Hurston at Solarium lecture

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John McWhorter

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (01/24/2014)(readMedia)-- Columbia University Associate Professor John McWhorter will discuss author and former St. Augustine resident Zora Neale Hurston at Flagler College's Solarium on Feb. 8.

McWhorter, who teaches English and Comparative Literature, is a contributing editor for The New Republic and has been a contributing editor at The Root.com and City Journal as well as a columnist at The New York Sun and The New York Daily News. He earned his PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 1993 and became Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley after teaching at Cornell University. He was a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute from 2002 until 2010.

The language specialist has also been a guest on "Meet the Press," "The Colbert Report," "Bill Moyers Journal," "Jim Lehrer News Hour" and "Good Morning, America" and has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Ebony, and The Wall Street Journal.

McWhorter's lecture, "Zora Neale Hurston: Ahead Of The Curve Then And Now," will take place at 3 p.m. in the Solarium of Ponce de Leon Hall, 74 King St., St. Augustine, Fla.

The program is free, and the public is cordially invited.

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Flagler College is an independent, four-year, comprehensive baccalaureate college located in St. Augustine, Fla. The college offers 29 majors, 34 minors and two pre-professional programs, the largest majors being business, education and communication. Small by intent, Flagler College has an enrollment of about 2,500 students, as well as a satellite campus at Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Fla. U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review regularly feature Flagler as a college that offers quality education at a relatively low cost. A Flagler education is less than half the cost of similar private colleges, and competitive with many state universities. A relatively young institution (founded in 1968), Flagler College is also noted for its historic beauty. The centerpiece of the campus is the former Hotel Ponce de Leon, a grand resort built in 1888 by Henry M. Flagler, industrialist, railroad pioneer and co-founder of Standard Oil. The Ponce has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. For more on Flagler College, visit www.flagler.edu.