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Mary Louise White speaker series event on Thursday
A reading by visiting writer and scholar Nishta Mehra is slated for Thursday, Nov. 7 at 5 p.m. in McEwen Hall Room 209.
Writers@Work guests to bring GRAMMY credentials, insight to campus
Alumni with GRAMMY credentials will be welcomed back to Fredonia for Writers@Work in November.
Iovannone to deliver lecture in ‘Rust and Stone: Stonewall 50’ speaker series
Jeffry Iovannone, coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies program, will give a lecture at the third biennial E. H. Butler Library Archives and Special Collections Charles Rand Penney Speaker Series, “Rust and Stone: Stonewall 50,” at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State on Saturday, Nov. 2.
VanDette presents Mark Twain research at symposium
Department of English Professor Emily E. VanDette was one of nine presenters to share their research on Mark Twain at the annual Quarry Farm Symposium hosted by Elmira College on Oct. 5.
VanDette reintroduces novel that spurred animal rights movement
Department of English Professor Emily E. VanDette has published a critical edition of “Trixy,” a 1904 novel by the best-selling American author and women’s rights activist Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The novel exposes the ethical issues surrounding the practice of vivisection, or scientific experiments on live animals.
Gerber presents paper at Wallace Stevens conference
Department of English Professor Natalie Gerber was one of 13 international scholars, all of whom currently or formerly served on the board of The Wallace Stevens Journal, who participated in “Sincerely Yours, Wallace Stevens,” the first conference to consider Stevens, a highly regarded American modern poet in the first half of the 20th century, as a correspondent.
Acclaimed ‘Lucky Man’ author Brinkley to give readings at Fredonia
Fiction writer Jamel Brinkley will give a craft talk and read excerpts from “A Lucky Man: Stories,” a collection of nine powerful stories set in Brooklyn and the South Bronx that have cast him as a significant new voice in fiction, at Fredonia as part of the Mary Louise White Visiting Writer Series established through the Fredonia College Foundation.
Fredonia alumnae to offer career tips, promote community engagement, at Writers@Work series
Fredonia will welcome back alumnae Emily Barber (B.S., Communication Studies, 2016) and Lauren Orlowski (B.S., Public Relations, 2015) for a two-day on-campus residency, sponsored by Writers@Work, on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 19 and 20.
Vanwesenbeeck publishes chapter on Huizinga, Dutch historian, writer
Department of English Professor Birger Vanwesenbeeck is the author of a chapter in the essay volume “Rereading Huizinga: Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later,” published in August by the University of Amsterdam Press.
Vanwesenbeeck receives award from National Endowment for the Humanities
Birger Vanwesenbeeck, Fredonia Professor of English, has been selected for a prestigious Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).