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The Works-in-Progress Seminar Series presents: Laura Godfrey, Tuesday, Mar. 18th 6-7pm.
Department of English M.A. candidate Laura Godfrey will present “Transubstantiation of the Cross in the York Play of the Crucifixion” in the Hannah-Ford Room (Bondurant Hall 2nd Fl.) as part of the Spring 2014 Works-in-Progress Seminar Series. As part of a larger study of physical transformations of the Cross in medieval literature, this chapter sees the Cross […]
Ernesto Javier Martinez: “On the Queer Practice and Racial Politics of Intelligibility.” Thursday, 6 March, 6pm, Bondurant Auditorium
Description: How do queers of color develop reliable knowledge about their lives and political possibilities despite being subject to the ideological violence of racist and homophobic societies? What importance do we attribute to the creative and subjective strategies queers of color employ to resist such violence and to negotiate levels of intelligibility, and what are […]
The Works-in-Progress Seminar Series presents: Martyn Bone, Thursday, Feb. 20th 5-6pm.
Visiting Professor Martyn Bone will present “‘This Is the Place Where the New World Is’: Black Struggle from the U.S. South to the Global South in the Writing of John Oliver Killens” in the Hannah-Ford Room (Bondurant Hall 2nd Fl.) as part of the Spring 2014 Works-in-Progress Seminar Series. In their 2001 special issue […]
Congratulations, Ben McClelland on your latest publication!
“Lifesaving Labradors: Stories from Families with Diabetic Alert Dogs,” a collection of stories edited by Ben Mclelland. Get the full story here.
The Edith Baine Lecture Series presents: “All Standing: Escape from Famine.” Nov. 20 at 7 p.m.
Kathryn Miles is the author of All Standing (Simon and Schuster), which details the miraculous journeys of the famine ship Jeanie Johnston, and Adventures With Ari, a memoir recounting her year as a canine naturalist. Miles has also written about subjects that include Puerto Rican street food, eel poachers, homing pigeons, and lifesavers. Her writing has appeared in […]
Patricia Smith Reading and Signing October 14th at 7p.m.
Patricia Smith has been called “a testament to the power of words to change lives.” She is the author of five books of poetry, including Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (2012), which won the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler (2008), a chronicle of the human and environmental cost of Hurricane […]
Benjamin Bagby to Perform “Beowulf” on Halloween Night
Beowulf: The Epic in Performance The Departments of English and Music announce a once-in-a-lifetime event coming to the University of Mississippi campus, as world-class performer Benjamin Bagby will sing the Old English epic poem Beowulf live, accompanied by Anglo-Saxon harp, on Thursday, October 31st at 7:30pm in Nutt Auditorium. Mr. Bagby’s stunning reconstruction of this medieval work […]
The Edith Baine Lecture Series presents: “What Was Native American Literature?” Nov. 28 at 6 p.m.
Melanie Benson Taylor (Herring Pond Wampanoag), Associate Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth University will deliver her lecture, “What Was Native American Literature? Tribalism, Regionalism, and Comparativism, in the Age of Globalization” on November 28 at 6p.m. at The Depot. Melanie Benson Taylor is a literary critic who specializes in U.S. Southern studies. She explored […]
Denis Johnson, Fiction Writer, Wed. Sept. 25, 8pm Bondurant Auditorium
Denis Johnson (born 1949) is an American author who is known for his short-story collection Jesus’ Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007), which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.He also writes plays, poetry, and non-fiction. “Train Dreams”, a novella originally published in The Paris Review in 2002, was published as a novel in 2011 and was a finalist […]
Congratulations, Joan, on your latest publication!
Conversations with Natasha Tretheway edited by Joan Wylie Hall. See more here.