UALR’s Department of English and the Cooper Honors Program in English will host lecture by University of Delaware Professor Thomas Leitch, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change: Revising the Classics,” about the adaptions of classic written texts at 7 p.m. Monday, April 4, in Ledbetter Hall Room C in the Donaghey Student Center.

The event is part of the Cooper Program’s special seminar “Twicetold Tales.” The event and a reception that follows are free and open to the public.

Leitch, a literary critic and film studies specialist, received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is director of the concentration in Film Studies at Delaware. He teaches courses in American film, as well as literary and cultural theory.

Since 1989, Leitch has reviewed mystery and suspense novels for Kirkus Reviews, where he is senior editor. He has published articles on Charles Dickens, Henry James, Donald Barthelme, and Hollywood genres from musicals to whodunits to slasher films.

His books include “What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and Interpretation,” “Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games,” “The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock, Crime Films and Perry Mason,” and “Film Adaptation and Its Discontents.” He is a past president of the Literature/Film Association.

For more information about Leitch’s lecture, contact the English Department at 501-569-3161.