Department of English

Schedule of Visiting Writers and Scholars, 2009-10

All presentations are open to the public and without charge.

Visiting Creative Writers

Visiting Composition Scholars

Fall Semester 2009

Fri, Sept 4
12:15, Shanks 370-380
Andrea Lunsford, Stanford "Collaboration and Collaborative Writing: The View From Here"
Thurs, Sept 10
7 pm, Volume II Bookstore
E. Ethelbert Miller, poet, literary activist poetry
Friday, Sept 18
12:15, Shanks 370-380
John Trimbur, Emerson College "English in a Splintered Metropolis: South Africa-After Apartheid"
Wed, Sept 30
12:15, Shanks 370-380
Danielle DeVoss, Michigan State "Visual Digital Rhetoric: Dominant Themes and Issues"
Thurs, Oct 8
7 pm, Volume II Bookstore
Margot Singer fiction
Thurs, Nov 5
4 pm, Shanks 370/380
Jordan Cofer, LLC Emerging Scholar Flannery O'Connor
Thurs, Nov 5
7 pm, Volume II Bookstore
Melanie Rae Thon fiction
Mon, Nov 9
4 pm, Shanks 370/380
Magda Zaborowska James Baldwin

Spring Semester 2010

Friday, Jan 22
12:15, Shanks 370-380
Nedra Reynolds, Univ of Rhode Island "Where Place and Postcolonial Studies Meet: An Inquiry into Practice and Genre"
Fri, Feb 5
7 pm, Volume II Bookstore
Brian Brodeur poetry
Monday, Mar 1
12:15, Shanks 370-380
Keith Gilyard, Penn State "On the Rhetoric of Race"
TBA
7 pm, Volume II Bookstore
Diane Thiel poetry, nonfiction
Thurs, Apr 1
7 pm, Volume II Bookstore
Chris Offutt fiction, nonfiction