ENGLISH NEWS
Course Materials for Fall Semester 2009 Posted
Have a look at what's afoot for the Fall 2009 semester.
Upcoming Events
Talking Fiction: A Conversation with Local Novelists. Saturday, October 10 from noon--3:30 pm, an elegant buffet lunch with an opportunity to mingle with local writers, followed by a panel discussion with Sarah Willis, Mary Doria Russell, and Michael Grant Jaffe. WCPN's Dee Perry will moderate. The event concludes with Q&A and a book signing. Registration is $35. and seating is limited, so register early. Deadline is September 10th. For more information, contact Shelley Bloomfield, President of Friends Of English, at s_bloomfield@sbcglobal.net.
25th anniversary meeting of the International Society for the Study of Narrative; April 2010. Keynote speakers: Greil Marcus, Rita Charon, Susan Stanford Friedman. Event sites at CWRU, the Renaissance Hotel, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Details at narrative.
Recent events
Writing Week
The English Department and the Center for the Study of Writing announce the University's inaugural Writing Week, which celebrates the full spectrum of writing at Case Western Reserve. More info at writingweek or on the poster. Highlights include:
- Gerald Graff on “The Centrality of Argument” (4/15/09)
- Anne Curzan on “Rules for Writers: Who Writes these Rules Anyway?” (4/16/09)
- Student Creative Readings & Performances (4/16/09)
- Susan Wells on “Legible Bodies—Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Rhetoric of Dissection” (4/17/09)
- Faculty & Alumni Fiction Reading (4/18/09
Wain Lecture Series (details on the poster)
- Feb. 25: John Lahr on "Comedy and Revenge."
- March 25: Philip Gourevitch on "Extreme Reporting: Inhabiting the story from Rwanda to Abu Ghraib."
- April 1: Tina Brown on "Feeding 'The Daily Beast': Re-inventing Journalism for the Internet." video
- April 15: Suzanne Braun Levine on "How the Woman's Movement has Re-framed the American Narrative."
Poetry and prose for spring
- Poetry reading, Forrest Gander. Clark 309, March 31, 7:00 pm. It will include the work of Jeremy Safran, who organized the event as his senior capstone project, and other students
- Poetry reading, Ruth Schwarz. April 9, Guilford Parlor, 4:30 pm
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- Macintyre award festivities, for best essay by a graduate student, part of writing week.
- English banquet, announcing 2009 contest award winners and introducing the capstone projects in English, tentatively scheduled for April 26