Professor J. Paul Hunter, a senior advisor to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will present his lecture, Melodies Unheard:  What Happens when You Read Poetry Silently, as the second Spring Cooper Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 15, at the Donaghey Student Center Room D. He will also conduct an informal discussion on graduate study in the humanities at 12:15 p.m. Thursday, March 15, in Dickinson Hall Auditorium.

Hunter is the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago and teaches spring semesters in the English Department at the University of Virginia. He is the editor of the Norton Introduction to Literature (9th edition, 2006), The Reluctant Pilgrim, Occasional Form, and Before Novels, which won the Gottschalk Prize in 1991.

Hunter has held Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Humanities Center fellowships and currently is writing a history of the Anglophone couplet, tentatively titled Sound Argument.

For more information, call (501) 569-3389.