Background
Ray, Angela Gail was born on October 25, 1964 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of Kenneth Wayne and Martha Ilene Baggett Ray.
( Angela Ray provides a refreshing new look at the lyceu...)
Angela Ray provides a refreshing new look at the lyceum lecture system as it developed in the United States from the 1820s to the 1880s. She argues that the lyceum contributed to the creation of an American "public" at a time when the country experienced a rapid change in land area, increasing immigration, and a revolution in transportation, communication technology, and social roles. The history of the lyceum in the nineteenth century illustrates a process of expansion, diffusion, and eventual commercialization. In the late 1820s, a politically and economically dominant culturethe white Protestant northeastern middle classinstitutionalized the practice of public debating and public lecturing for education and moral uplift. In the 1820s and 1830s, the lyceum was characterized by organized groups in cities and towns, particularly in the Northeast and the Old Northwest (now the Midwest). These groups were established to promote debate, to create a setting for study, and to provide a forum for members’ lecturing. By the 1840s and 1850s, however, most lyceums concentrated on the sponsorship of public lectures, presented for institutional profit as well as public instruction and entertainment. Eventually, lyceum lectures became a commercial enterprise and desirable platform for celebrities who wished to expand their incomes from lecturing.
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Ray, Angela Gail was born on October 25, 1964 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of Kenneth Wayne and Martha Ilene Baggett Ray.
Bachelor, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, 1986. Master of Arts, University London, 1987. Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2001.
Editor University Georgia Press, Athens, 1988—1989. Freelance editor to numerous academy presses, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1989—1996. Assistant professor University Memphis, 2001—2003, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 2003—2008, associate professor, since 2008.
Grad teaching assistant University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1997—1999.
( Angela Ray provides a refreshing new look at the lyceu...)
Member of National Communication Association (Book award 2006).
Married Harold Everett Gulley, August 12, 1989.