Dr. Coleman Hutchison will give a talk titled “Apocalypse Then: Slavery, Civil War, and Speculative Fiction, 1836-1860” at 3 p.m., Friday, Nov. 2, in Newton Hall. Dr. Hutchison is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America published in 2012. His essays have appeared in American Literary History, Comparative American Studies, The Emily Dickinson Journal and PMLA. Dr. Hutchison currently has two books in process: The Ditch is Nearer: Race, Place, and American Poetry, 1863-2009 and a biography of “Dixie.” Dr. Hutchison’s lecture is sponsored by the Georgia Humanities Council.