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(10/18/2021) Emily Bernard Lecture on Zora Neal Hurston: Buttrick 101, 4 PM
Aug. 5, 2021—Emily Bernard is the Julian Lindsay Green & Gold Professor of English. She holds a B. A. and a Ph. D. in American Studies from Yale University. Bernard has received fellowships from the Alphonse A. Fletcher Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Arts Council, and the...
(10/7/2021) Lydia Peelle, fiction: 7 PM | 101 Buttrick Hall | Face masks required
Aug. 4, 2021—Lydia Peelle is a mother, writer, dancer and photographer. The Whiting Award-winning author of the novel The Midnight Cool and the story collection Reasons For and Advantages of Breathing, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice book which received an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a finalist for The Orion Book Prize,...
(9/30/2021) Deb Olin Unferth, fiction/nonfiction (virtual reading): 7 PM
Aug. 3, 2021—Deb Olin Unferth’s novels and short story collections are widely celebrated as wickedly comic and cutting edge. She is the author of six books of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent book is the novel Barn 8 (Graywolf, 2020 ). Her other books include the graphic novel I, Parrot(Catapult 2017) in collaboration with the illustrator...
(9/23/2021) Carl Phillips, poetry: 7 PM | 101 Buttrick Hall | Face masks required
Aug. 2, 2021—Carl Phillips is the author of 15 books of poetry, most recently Pale Colors in a Tall Field (FSG, 2020). His other books include Wild Is the Wind (FSG, 2018), winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Publisher’s Weekly, in a starred review, called it “haunting and contemplative as the torch song for which...
(9/9/2021)Sheba Karim and Didi Jackson Reading: 7 PM | 101 Buttrick Hall | Face masks required
Aug. 1, 2021—September 9th, 7PM: Sheba Karim, Fiction & Didi Jackson, Poetry Sheba Karim is the author of the YA novels Skunk Girl, That Thing We Call a Heart, which made several Best Book lists including, Bank Street and Kirkus, and Mariam Sharma Hits the Road, which was named an NPR Best Book of the Year, and The Marvelous Mirza Girls (May 2021)....
Commencement Class of 2020
Apr. 19, 2021—
Black History Month – Literary Trivia
Feb. 18, 2021—
01/28 Visiting Writers Series: Quan Barry
Jan. 23, 2021—January 28, 7PM CST | Click here to register Born in Saigon and raised on Boston’s north shore, Quan Barry is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the author of two novels and four poetry books; her third book, Water Puppets, won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was...
02/04 Visiting Writers Series: Timothy Donnelly
Jan. 22, 2021—February 4, 7PM CST | Click here to register Timothy Donnelly’s most recent book of poetry is The Problem of the Many (Wave Books, 2019). His other collections include Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebensezeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010), winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize. With John...
02/10 LATS Spring Symposium: Fred Arroyo & Myriam Gurba
Jan. 21, 2021—February 10, 7PM CST | Click here to register The Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writer Series is partnered with Latina and Latino Studies (LATS) at Vanderbilt University to present the 2021 Spring Symposium: Writing to Live. Fred Arroyo is the author of Western Avenue and Other Fictions and The Region of Lost Names:...