Thomas Leitch discusses Hitchcock the Comedian

SALISBURY, MD-- Author Thomas M. Leitch, senior editor for Kirkus Reviews, discusses "Hitchcock the Comedian" on Monday, April 8, at 7 p.m. in Devilbiss Hall Room 149 at Salisbury University. Leitch's talk is free and open to the public and is part of this spring's Humor Lecture Series at SU.

A professor of film, literary and cultural theory at the University of Delaware, Leitch is the author of three books: What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and Interpretation (Penn State, 1986); Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games (Georgia, 1991); and Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland, 1992). He has also published essays on Charles Dickens, Henry James, Donald Barthelme, the American short story and Hollywood movies.

He has a special interest in such popular modes as detective stories and Hollywood genre films (westerns, musicals, gangster films and comedies of all sorts). Since 1989 he has reviewed mystery and suspense fiction for Kirkus Reviews, which is published twice monthly and reviews some 5,000 books annually.

At the University of Delaware, Leitch is director of the film studies concentration and teaches undergraduate courses in film and graduate courses in literary and cultural theory.

The SU Office of Cultural Affairs and Museum Programs sponsors Leitch's presentation. For more information, please call 410-543-6030 or visit the SU Web site at www.salisbury.edu.