Tuesday, May 1, 2012

6 p.m., Henley Room, Mervyn Sterne Library

Prof. Bill Hutchings will lead a discussion of Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture: A Novel.




 

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Reception at 5:30 p.m., Humanities Building 237A
Reading at 6:00 p.m., Spencer Honors House

HB237A will be designated as The Collins Room in honor of retired professor Bob Collins.

The reading will feature students readers

• Dan Townsend, fiction
• Joi Webb, poetry
• Mollie Hawkins, creative nonfiction 

Alumni Lecture Series

Dr. Andy Orchard will present "The Riddle of Writing and the Writing of Riddles in Anglo-Saxon England"

7 p.m., April 11, 2012,  in the Chemistry Building, Room 101

ANDY ORCHARD was appointed Provost and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College in 2007 and renewed in 2012 for a second five year term. Prior to his appointment at Trinity, he was the Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of Toronto.  He served as the College´s Public Orator from 2002-2007 and is a past Chair of Trinity´s Senate. He pursued his passion for Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, at Queens´ College, Cambridge, then at Exeter College, Oxford, before receiving his PhD in 1990 from Cambridge. He is the author of The Poetic Art of Aldhelm (1994), Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monster of the “Beowulf”-Manuscript (2^nd edition 2003), The Cassell Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend (3^rd edition 2002), A Critical Companion to “Beowulf” (2^nd editions 2005) and The Elder Edda: A Book of Viking Lore (2011). He edits a number of series and journals for presses including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and the University of Toronto Press, where he is currently Chair of the Manuscript Review Committee. 

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

6 p.m., Henley Room, Mervyn Sterne Library

Prof. Gale Temple will lead a discussion of Chris Cleave's Little Bee.




 

Wednesday, March 28, 2012
7:00 p.m., Hulsey Recital Hall

Bryn Chancellor's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Cutbank, Phoebe, Colorado Review, The Cream City Review, and Crazyhorse. Her awards and honors include a fellowship and a project grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the David R. Sokolov Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

6 p.m., Henley Room, Mervyn Sterne Library

Prof. Nichole Lariscy will lead a discussion of Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales.




 

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
6:00 p.m., Hulsey Recital Hall

Michael Kardos co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State. His books include the story collection One Last Good Time (Press 53, 2011), the novel The Three-Day Affair (forthcoming from Mysterious Press / Grove Atlantic), and the textbook The Art and Craft of Fiction (forthcoming from Bedford/St. Martin’s). He is the editor of Jabberwock Review, MSU’s national literary journal. Teaching and scholarly interests include creative writing and 20th/21st century American literature.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

6 p.m., Henley Room, Mervyn Sterne Library

Prof. Manny Blackshear will lead a discussion of Hope Mirrlees' novel Lud-in-the-Mist.