UC, Riverside Literature Professor Found Murdered.

An autopsy is scheduled Wednesday on the body of well-known English Professor Lindon Barrett, who was apparently murdered last week in his apartment in Long Beach. The body was found in an advanced state of decomposition, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office, where the autopsy will take place. . . . [Barrett was a well-known UC, Irvine professor associated with the prestigious Critical Theory Institute and author of Blackness and Value: Seeing Double, among other items, who had recently moved to UC, Riverside. See his new Faculty page here: http://english.ucr.edu/people/faculty/barrett/index.html.] Read the article here: http://collegelife.freedomblogging.com/2008/07/15/breaking-news-former-uci-professor-found-murdered/.