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(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...
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:...
02/11 LATS Spring Symposium: Panel Discussion & Reading
Jan. 21, 2021—Panel Discussion: Fred Arroyo, Alex Espinoza, and Daisy Hernández | February 11, 3PM CST | Register for panel discussion Reading: Alex Espinoza and Daisy Hernández | February 11, 7PM CST | Register for reading The Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writer Series is partnered with Latina and Latino Studies (LATS) at Vanderbilt University to present...
02/25 Visiting Writers Series: Dana Johnson
Jan. 13, 2021—February 25, 7PM CST | Click here to register Dana Johnson is the author of the short story collection In the Not Quite Dark (Counterpoint, 2016). She is also the author of Break Any Woman Down, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novel Elsewhere, California. Both books were nominees for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award....