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THE FORTIETH JAMES EDWIN SAVAGE LECTURE IN THE RENAISSANCE: “Eco vs. Ego in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Robert N. Watson, Professor of English, UCLA
Robert N. Watson received his B.A. summa cum laude from Yale in 1975 and his Ph.D. with Highest Honors from Stanford in 1979, then spent six years as a professor at Harvard before coming to UCLA in 1986, where he has served as Chair of the Department of English and Chair of the Faculty of the UCLA College […]
Tom Franklin Novel Selected for 2012 UM Common Reading Experience
“Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter,” by Edgar Award-winning author Tom Franklin, has been selected for the 2012 Common Reading Experience at the University of Mississippi. https://zing.olemiss.edu/tom-franklin-novel-selected-for-2012-um-common-reading-experience/
Ann Fisher-Wirth’s Fourth Book of Poems, Dream Cabinet, Published by Wings Press
Ann Fisher-Wirth’s fourth book of poems, Dream Cabinet, has just been published by Wings Press. Of the book, Claudia Emerson writes: “Ann Fisher-Wirth finds in ‘all of creation sudden music,’ the subjects in Dream Cabinet ranging from the BP oil spill to the ‘hidden seeds’ of intimate memory. She reminds us that the earth’s uncertain passage is inextricable from […]
Poet and Environmentalist Sandra Steingraber to Speak on Campus
Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized authority on the environmental links to cancer and human health. Her books include Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood, and Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Era of Environmental Crisis. […]
Traci Brimhall Selected as 2012 Summer Poet in Residence
Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Rookery(Southern Illinois University Press), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, New […]
Anne Babson Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/The-Captivity-Narrative–Enduring-Shackles-and-Emancipating-Language-of-Subjectivity1-4438-3525-0.htm
Chris Offutt to Read at Thacker Mountain Radio
Chris Offutt will read at Thacker Mountain Radio Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 6PM at the Lyric Theatre. For more information, click here: www.thackermountain.com/
Poet Beth Ann Fennelly Named UM Humanities Teacher of the Year
… Honoree sets reading, lecture for Oct. 27 OXFORD, Miss. – Passion for poetry and teaching have earned one of the University of Mississippi’s most beloved professors another honor. Beth Ann Fennelly, associate professor of English and direct...
CWA: Tom Franklin wins the CWA Gold Dagger 2011
Tom Franklin (pictured above) was named winner of the 2011 CWA Gold Dagger, for “Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter” published by Macmillan. The announcement was made at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards. The judges explained why they had ch...
MFA in Creative Writing Program Ranked 38th by Respected Publication
OXFORD, Miss. – The respected bi-monthly journal Poets and Writers recently ranked the University of Mississippi’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program 38th among the nation’s top 50 programs. “Although our program has only b...