Jeanne Campbell Reesman, professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, will speak to students, faculty and community members at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 19 in the Lumina Theater on the UNCW campus. Her talk, "Jack London, Photographer," will be followed by a reception and book signing. This event is free and open to all.

Reesman will present a PowerPoint slide show on Jack London's photography, including photographs that will be part of her forthcoming book, Jack London, Photographer, to be published by the University of Georgia Press. On display will be a sampling of the roughly 12,000 images London made as he traveled the globe, serving as a war correspondent for major magazines and studying the lives of the poor.

Reesman has authored and edited several books on Jack London. Her most recent, Jack London's Racial Lives (U of G Press 2008), offers the first full study of race in London's life and works. Her other books include Jack London: One Hundred Years a Writer (2002), No Mentor but Myself: Jack London on Writing and Writers (1999), and Jack London: a Study of the Short Fiction (1999). Reesman was editor of The Call: Magazine of the Jack London Society from 1990-2006. She is the recipient of grants from the California Historical Society (2008), the National Endowment for the Arts (2008) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (2006). She was a Fulbright Professor at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2005-2006, as well as the Ashbel Smith Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio from 2001-2006. She has also taught at the University of Hawaii and the University of Pennsylvania.

This talk is being sponsored by the UNCW Department of English and The Buckner Lecture Series, established by Charles F. Green III to bring distinguished guest presenters to UNCW and to honor his friend, Katherine K. Buckner.

For further information, contact the chair of the UNCW Buckner Committee, Don Bushma at bushmand@uncw.edu.