Presidential Address 2000: She Do the President in Different Voices

Abstract

Do t he President i n Different Voices* LINDA HUTCHEON [Lights down throughout; slide projector on. Linda Hutcheon at podium at the start, Nellie McKay and Andrea Lunsford seated at table.] LINDA HUTCHEON: Long, long ago, in a galaxy (and an MLA convention) far away, a woman said: I hope this microphone works. If you have to listen to me I hope you can hear me. Once before at a gathering of a learned society, seeing an upright gadget before me, I talked with extreme care directly into it for half an hour, moving neither to the right nor to the left, only to find as I went down from the platform that it was a lamp. LINDA HUTCHEON is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. She is the author of numerous studies, including Irony's Edge: The Theory and