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Show SU professor to speak at Weber State also participated in the fall meeting, chairing a section on general literature. Mills' research on Chenier, an 18th Century French poet, has included working with the poet's original manuscripts now housed at Bibliotheque Nationale, the national library in Paris. His most recent paper deals with Chenier's corpus of poems, "Iambes," written just before his death by guillotines, as he contemplated death and his condition in prison. Moorty, a regular contributor to Utah Academy meetings as a scholar and section chairman, writes in his paper that "King Lear epitomizes Shakespeare's dramatization of human nature in all its glory and in all its abysmal wretchednessthe wret-chednessthe strength and the infirmity of the human being." - Mills joined the SUSC faculty in 1972, Moorty, in 1975. CEDAR CITY -Southern Utah State College faculty members James Mills and S.S. Moorty will present papers at spring meetings of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters April 16 at Weber State College. Mills, associate professor of French, will read his paper "Imabes of Andre Chenier: The Final Odyssey" in a section on medern foreign languages. Moorty, associate professor of English, will present his "Human Nature in King Lear" in the British literature section. In November, Mills read his paper "The Iambes of Andre Chenier: A Manifesto of Poetic Engagement" in a general literature section of the Utah Academy held at Dixie College. Moorty |