Stephen A. King, professor of communication studies at Delta State University, is a recipient of the Mississippi Humanities Council Teaching Award for 2010-2011.
As part of the awards presentation, Dr. King will deliver a lecture on blues tourism entitled “Birthplace of the Blues: Blues Myths and the Rhetorical Imagination of Place,” at 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 1, in the Howorth Seminar Room located on the first floor of the Capps Archives and Museum on the campus.
A reception will follow the presentation.
This event, which is free and open to the public, is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Mississippi Humanities Council.
