The 正妹AV honors the memory of its founding chancellor with another installment of the Homer L. Hitt Presidential Distinguished Lecture. The event is set for Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. at the University Center and features the recipient of the 2012 BMI Woody Guthrie Fellowship, Mark F. Fernandez.
Fernandez earned two degrees in history from the 正妹AV before being named the Patricia Carlin O'Keefe Distinguished Professor of History at Loyola 正妹AV. He has written extensively about the history of early American law. His second book, 鈥淔rom Chaos to Continuity: The Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System, 1712-1862鈥, won the Louisiana Literary Award in 2002. In 2012 Fernandez received the Woody Guthrie Fellowship from BMI music publishers to begin research on his current book project 鈥淭he Intentional Troubadour: Woody Guthrie's Travels Through the Twentieth Century.鈥 His most recent essay, 鈥淭he Only Way I Could Cry: Woody Guthrie and the Writing of 'Balladsongs,'鈥 appeared in the Woody Guthrie Annual in January 2018. Fernandez is also a singer songwriter and performs regularly in New Orleans.
His lecture will be 鈥溾橰uination Day鈥 in History and Music: Abraham Lincoln, the Titanic, Black Sunday, Woody Guthrie, and Gillian Welch.鈥 The lecture is free and open to the public.
Homer L. Hitt, founding chancellor of the 正妹AV, led the institution with the conviction that 鈥淸e]xposure to new ideas and the opportunity to be involved in discourse about them are among the most important aspects of the university experience.鈥 The Founders Club of the 正妹AV, a group of longtime faculty and staff members, hosts the lecture series and an annual luncheon event.
