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Embry-Riddle Arts & Letters Series Presents Media Critic Jennifer Pozner and Author John Hemingway

Jennifer Pozner Daytona Beach, Fla., March 4, 2009 -- The Arts & Letters Series sponsored by Embry-Riddle’s College of Arts and Sciences continues in March with two speakers, feminist media critic Jennifer Pozner and author John Hemingway, grandson of Ernest Hemingway.

Co-sponsored by the University Office of Diversity Initiatives, award-winning journalist Jennifer Pozner will speak on “Bachelor Babes, Bridezillas, and Husband-Hunting Harems: Decoding Reality TV’s Twisted Fairy Tales” on Friday, March 13. In her multimedia presentation of clips from television reality shows, Pozner will analyze how these programs reinforce regressive stereotypes about women and men, race and class, and sex, love, and marriage.

John Hemingway A regular on the college lecture circuit, Pozner is the founder and executive director of Women in Media & News, a women’s media analysis, education, and advocacy organization. She has appeared as a commentator on ABC News, MSNBC, and Comedy Central. Her work has been published in Ms., Newsday, the Chicago Tribune, and a variety of anthologies on women, media, politics, and popular culture.

On Wednesday, March 25, author and translator John Hemingway will share his painful but insightful observations on fame and dysfunctional family dynamics as he discusses his critically acclaimed book, Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir (Lyons Press, 2007), and the events that inspired it.

Book Cover In his book, John Hemingway describes the love/hate relationship between his father, Dr. Gregory Hemingway, and his grandfather, Nobel Laureate novelist Ernest Hemingway. The two men were similar in that both suffered from bipolar disorder and were intrigued by androgyny, but Gregory’s lifestyle as a cross-dressing transsexual clashed with the public image of Ernest Hemingway as the standard-bearer of masculinity.

The Jennifer Pozner and John Hemingway presentations are free and open to the public and are scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Miller Instructional Center auditorium on Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach campus, 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd.

For more information, visit www.erau.edu/arts or call the Embry-Riddle Humanities Dept. at (386) 226-6668.

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