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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 2021
Apr. 19, 2021—
Commencement Class of 2020
Apr. 19, 2021—
4 English Faculty Received COVID-19 Innovative Teaching Award
Feb. 18, 2021—The Office of the Dean recognized more than 50 A&S faculty members for their exemplary instruction during the fall 2020 term. Faculty were nominated by their peers and their students for (among many things) creative teaching using multiple technologies, teaching on timely and topical issues, innovative teaching in special contexts, and ultimately keeping students engaged...
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...