Schedule of Visiting Writers and Scholars, 2007-08
All presentations are open to the public and without charge.
Spring Semester 2008
| Wednesday, Feb 6, 7:00, Volume II | Philip Nikolayev | poetry |
| Monday, February 11, 11:15-12:45 |
John Trimbur | Conversation with GTAs using Call to Write |
| Monday, Feb 11, 7:00, Shanks 370/380 | Carolyn Krieter-Foronda (Poet Laureate of Virginia) | poetry |
| Tuesday, Mar 11, 7:00, Volume II | David Haynes | fiction |
| Wednesday, March 12, 12:15, Shanks 370 | Eli Goldblatt (Temple University) | Composition Speakers Series |
| Friday, March 14, 3:00, Shanks 370 | Dot Porter (Univ of Kentucky, ACH) | Why TEI? An introduction to the text encoding initiative |
| Monday, March 17, 4:15, Holden 190 | Laura Behling | “bracketed numbers and pulsing stars,” or “technology
with a |
| Wednesday, March 19, 4:00, Alumni Hall (Inn at VT) | Bruce Margon (Vice-Chancellor of Research at UC, Santa Cruz) | "Rocket Science and Communicating Science: Closer Than You Think" |
| Thursday, March 20, 11-12:30, Shanks 340 (CSRS) | Bruce Margon | informal chat with faculty and students |
| Thursday, March 20, 4:00, Shanks 370 | Bruce Margon (Vice-Chancellor of Research at UC, Santa Cruz) | "Notes from the Edge of the Universe: Case Studies in Science Communication" |
| Wednesday, March 26, 12:15, Shanks 370 | Carolyn Miller (North Carolina State) | Composition Speakers Series |
| Wednesday, March 26, 7:00, Volume II | Alix Ohlin | fiction |
| Thursday, April 10, 7:00, Volume II | Mark Doty | poetry |
Fall Semester 2007
| Wednesday, Sept 5, 12:15, Shanks 370 | Kate Latterell | composition: ReMix: Reading and Composing Culture |
| Wednesday, Sept 5, 7:00, Shanks 370 | Stephanie Strickland | hypertext, digital writing, poetry |
| Thursday, Sept 13, 12:30, Shanks 370 | Paul Douglass | Byron's Feminist Canon |
| Wednesday, Sept 26, 7:00, PAB 204 | Mark Evans Bryan | playwriting (with performance by Sue Ott Rowlands) |
| Wednesday, Oct 10, 12:15, Shanks 370 | Lisa Ede | composition |
| Thursday, Oct 18, 7:00, Volume II | Richard McCann | fiction, poetry |
| Oct 25, 4:00, Shanks 370 | Tom Martin | A Writer's Life at FEDEX and ITT: Case Studies in Global Communication, Crisis Management, and Corporate Ethics |
| Wednesday, Nov 7, 7:00, Volume II | Julianna Baggott | fiction, poetry |
| Wednesday, Nov 28, 7:00, Volume II | Matthew Zapruder | fiction, poetry |