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Mick Foley at MIT Thursday

Posted: Apr 9th 2007 By: CMBurnham

Multiple-time New York Times bestselling author and World Wrestling Entertainment superstar Mick Foley will be appearing in a free public speaking event open to the public from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday on the campus of MIT.

Foley will be speaking in Building 54, Room 100, in an event called "The Real World's Faker than Wrestling: Former WWE Champion and Best-Selling Author Mick Foley," part of the Comparative Media Studies weekly colloquia series at MIT.

For more information and directions for Mick's appearance, contact the MIT Comparative Media Studies program at cms@mit.edu.

Foley will be on campus on Wednesday and Thursday to share his thoughts with a Comparative Media Studies class focused on pro wrestling in America.

The class, taught by Master's candidate Sam Ford, focuses on the history of American professional wrestling and its place in popular culture. Ford will graduate in June with a Master's degree from the Comparative Media Studies department. While at MIT, he has worked as a media analyst for the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium, located at http://www.convergenceculture.org.

Foley, one of the top wrestling performers of the past decade, will talk about his own years as an entertainer and his branching from a world of athletic storytelling into a venue telling stories with the written word, as the author of three memoirs, two novels, and a variety of children's books. He will discuss his experience telling stories in a variety of written and performative genres and how he has bridged across these media forms. He will also talk about his management of multiple personas within the pro wrestling world.

Mick Foley has been a professional wrestler since the mid-1980s and was a headlining star for Worl Wrestling Entertainment under the personas of Mankind, Cactus Jack, or Dude Love, all of whom were facets of the overall character, Mick Foley. He continues to wrestle and portray his character on occasion for the WWE and has just finished his third memoir, The Hardcore Diaries, following the best-selling Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks and Foley is Good...and the Real World is Faker than Wrestling.

For more on the MIT CMS colloquia series, look here:
http://cms.mit.edu/events/colloquiaforums.php.