The Distinguished Lecture Series at West Texas A&M University will host two March events including author Mark Forgy and researcher Dr. Sarah Cornish.

Forgy, author and manager of the estate of famed art forger Elmyr de Hory, will speak at 6 p.m. March 9 at WT’s Sybil B. Harrington Fine Arts Complex Recital Hall. As part of the Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS), the event is free and open to the public. Please contact Dr. Amy Von Lintel at avonlintel@wtamu.edu or 806-651-2794 for more information.

Forgy’s lecture, “An Art Forger Revealed: The Myth, Mystery and Legacy of Elmyr de Hory,” will explore the life of one of the greatest art forgers of the 20th century and his connections to West Texas, where some of his forgeries still reside today. His lecture also coincides with Dr. Amy Von Lintel’s art history class Fakes and Forgeries being taught at WT this semester.

Forgy will sign copies of his book, “The Forger’s Apprentice: Life with the World’s Most Notorious Artist,” at 5 p.m. in the lobby before his lecture at 6 p.m.

Occurring later than week, Cornish, a published researcher in the fields of British and American modernism and the literary and social culture of the interwar period, will be speaking on WT’s campus at 4:30 p.m. March 11 in the Cornette Library in the Blackburn Room about “Fashion on the Ration: The Language of Clothes in British Wartime Domestic Propaganda.” As a DLS event, it is free and open to the public. Please contact Dr. Bonnie Roos at broos@wtamu.edu or 806-651-2465 for more information.

Cornish serves as an associate professor of English and the Director of Graduate Studies at the
University of Northern Colorado. She is the academic advisor for UNC’s International Film Series and is also co-director of the Department of English’s Writing Internship Program.

“I am thrilled to have Dr. Cornish visit with us, as I find her research interests to bridge the disciplines of art, literature, theater, rhetoric, communications, and feminism,” said Dr. Bonnie Roos, professor of English and department head for English, Philosophy, and Modern Languages. “She is an incisive and approachable cultural theorist, guaranteed to interest and charm students, faculty, and community members.”

Dr. Cornish will also participate in a lunchtime roundtable on regional teaching from 12:30-1:15 p.m. on March 11 in the Blackburn Room of the Cornette Library, co-hosted by DLS and the Teaching Excellence Center.

-West Texas A&M University