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September 26, 2007
Columbia College Chicago: Creative Non-Fiction Week 2007 Events Announced
Artists will discuss the craft and business of creative nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago's seventh annual Creative Nonfiction Week, October 14 -19. Co-sponsored by the college's English, Journalism and Fiction Writing Departments, the program will feature readings, lectures and panel discussions, along with visual presentations. All events are free and open to the public. For the first time this year, the list of accomplished Creative Nonfiction Week speakers will include those artists whose creative nonfiction pieces are communicated not only through writing, but through other forms as well. In addition to discussions with well known artists and journalists such as Alex Kotlowitz, author of, Never a City So Real, The Other Side of the River and There Are No Children, graphic novelists Scott McCloud, Ivan Brunetti and Art Spiegelman will examine the art of storytelling through drawing. Chicago Tribune photographer Antonio Perez, Chicago Public Radio senior content developer Justin Kaufmann, Chicago Public Radio reporter Natalie Moore and documentarian Ted Hardin will further explore the topic of storytelling through sound and image during Thursday's panel discussion. "Creative non-fiction is a genre that pushes boundaries. It includes various forms such as memoir, biography, travel writing, opinion and personal essays," said Teresa Puente, a member of the journalism faculty and co-coordinator of Creative Nonfiction Week. "This year we will have an amazing lineup of speakers from journalists to performance artists and graphic novelists who experiment with the form in words, sounds and images," Puente added.
Source: Columbia College Chicago, Illinois
September 5, 2007
'Interrogation Palace' Poet Wojahn to Give Reading at Washington College
Award-winning poet David Wojahn, a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist, will read from his works in Washington College's Sophie Kerr Room on Wednesday, September 19, at 4:30 p.m. Wojahn is the author of seven books of poetry and has been the recipient of many awards and prizes: the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, the William Carlos Williams Award and the Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America, Vermont College's Crowley/Weingarten Award for Excellence in Teaching, Poetry magazine's George Kent Prize and three Pushcart Prizes. This year Wojahn was one of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his book Interrogation Palace. Wojahn said he was both surprised and honored by the recognition, especially considering that Interrogation Palace was selected from among the hundreds of books of poetry published in 2006. "To have that sort of recognition from your peers means a lot," said Wojahn, "and it was especially gratifying that they recognized this book, which published both new work and a selection of poems from my previous six collections." Professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University, Wojahn has had his poems appear in The New Republic, The New Yorker, Poetry and elsewhere. For subject matter in his verse, he often looks to moments of historical significance, such as the assassination of John Lennon. Wojahn has expressed the hope that his poetry is considered "activist," and Publishers Weekly has praised his "remarkable and well-informed protest poems." Wojahn's poetry reading is the opening event in the 2007-2008 Sophie Kerr Lecture Series. The series honors the legacy of its namesake, a writer from Denton, Md., whose generosity has enriched Washington College's literary culture. When she died in 1965, Kerr left the bulk of her estate to Washington College, specifying that one half of the income from her bequest be awarded every year to the senior showing the most "ability and promise for future fulfillment in the field of literary endeavor"-the famed Sophie Kerr Prize-and the other half be used to bring visiting writers to campus, to fund scholarships and to help defray the costs of student publications.
Source: Washington College, Maryland
September 25, 2007
California State University Stanislaus Dean Carolyn Stefanco awarded Fulbright in Croatia
Carolyn J. Stefanco, Founding Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Stanislaus, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and do research at the University of Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia during the 2007-2008 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. The University of Zagreb (UZ), the oldest and largest university in Croatia, was founded in 1669. It includes 28 faculties, three art academies, and a teacher's academy, and instructs more than 60,000 students in 150 B.A., 250 M.A., and 110 doctoral programs. Located in the city of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia (750,000 inhabitants), the UZ leads the nation in terms of higher education, and plays the most significant role in creating international networks for educators. Stefanco, scheduled to be in Croatia through the remainder of the fall semester starting in October, will conduct a cross-cultural examination of the curriculum transformation process underway in Croatia, with particular attention to the degree to which content and concerns about gender and ethnicity have been integrated into university courses. She will also teach a course on Women's History for the Department of American Studies, where she will explore with students the gendered nature of nationalism and the impact of civil war - in both the United States and Croatian contexts - on women.
Source: California State University, Stanislaus
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