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Jan. 29 | Multilingualism and Global Anglophone: A Conversation with Rebecca Walkowitz
Jan. 23, 2024—Join us for Multilingualism and Global Anglophone: A Conversation with Rebecca Walkowitz. The talk will be Monday, January 29 from noon to 2 PM in Buttrick Hall, Room 409. Lunch will be provided, but please RSVP to Arianna Pappas: arianna.f.pappas@vanderbilt.edu. Make sure to read the essay that can be downloaded as a PDF here...
January 25, 2024: Megan Fernandez, poetry reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Jan. 9, 2024—January 25, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Megan Fernandez, Poetry Megan Fernandes is the author of I Do Everything I’m Told, and Good Boys, a finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize, the Saturnalia Book Prize, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. She has work published in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Rattle, PANK,...
Akshya Saxena Awarded MLA First Book Prize
Dec. 6, 2023—Akshya Saxena’s Vernacular English has been awarded the MLA First Book Prize! The prize committee writes of Vernacular English: A highly original contribution to postcolonial studies and comparative literary studies, Akshya Saxena’s Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial Indiaargues that English in India has, since Independence, served as a language of everyday life and...
November 30, 2023: Maggie Millner, fiction reading – 7 PM, Alumni Hall 206
Nov. 21, 2023—November 30 @ 7 PM, Alumni Hall – Room 206: Maggie Millner, Poetry Maggie Millner is the author of Couplets, published by FSG (US). Maggie’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, POETRY, Kenyon Review, BOMB, The Nation, and elsewhere. She is a Lecturer at Yale and a Senior Editor at The Yale Review....
November 9, 2023: Angie Cruz, fiction reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Oct. 26, 2023—November 9, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Angie Cruz, Fiction Angie Cruz is a novelist and editor. Her most recent novel How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water (2022) is a finalist for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, shortlisted for The Aspen Words Literary Prize, winner of the Gold Medal, Latino Book Award/The...
October 26, 2023: Michael Collier, poetry reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Oct. 1, 2023— October 26, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Michael Collier, Poetry Michael Collier is the author of eight books of poems, among them, The Missing Mountain: New & Selected Poems and The Ledge, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Collier has received Guggenheim and Thomas Watson fellowships, two National...
October 12, 2023: Jamil Jan Kochai, fiction reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Sep. 28, 2023—October 12, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Jamil Jan Kochai, Fiction Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, winner of the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize and a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award. His debut novel, 99 Nights in Logar, was a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway...
Major Jackson Wins 2023 Academy of American Poets Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement
Sep. 21, 2023—Congratulations to Major Jackson, who has received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement! Prof. Jackson is a Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program in the English Department at Vanderbilt University. He also serves as the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities. Click here to see the...
September 28, 2023: Patricia Smith, poetry reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Sep. 14, 2023—September 28, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Patricia Smith, Poetry Patricia Smith, recipient of the Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, is the author of Unshuttered; Incendiary Art (winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, the LA Times Book Prize, the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); Shoulda Been Jimi...
September 21, 2023: Sigrid Nunez, fiction reading – 7 PM, Vanderbilt Bookstore
Sep. 7, 2023—September 21, 2023, Vanderbilt Bookstore: Sigrid Nunez, Fiction Sigrid Nunez has published eight novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Friend, and, most recently, What Are You Going Through. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Her new novel, The Vulnerables, will be published by Riverhead Books in November 2023. The Friend, a New...