Jan Ziolkowski, "The Making of American Gothic"

The next Heinz Blum Memorial Lecture at Boston College will be given by our own Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin and Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library. In "Boston/Cambridge and the Making of American Gothic," Prof. Ziolkowski will explore the vogue for things medieval in the Boston-Cambridge area in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, epitomized by historian and intellectual Henry Adams (descendant of the presidential family) and his influential book, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, as well as architect Ralph Adams Cram and his Gothic Revival style, including the Collegiate Gothic style found (among other places) on Boston College's own campus. The lecture will take place this Thursday, 26 March at 5:30 pm in Boston College's Stokes Auditorium (map here); I hope you are able to attend!