ENGLISH NEWS
NEW: English Course Schedule for Spring 2010
English Faculty Member Awarded Fellowship
Sarah Gridley, poet and Assistant Professor, is one of 20 recipients of the 2010 Creative Workforce Fellowship. The Community Partnership for Arts and Culture disburses these $20,000 grants, which are overseen by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. Read more at The Plain Dealer’s website.
Spring 2010 Events
Journalism and Media Lecture Series
February 10, 7:00 pm: Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, which won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and is one of the small handful of indispensable books about the origins of Islamic terrorism.
March 3, 7:00 pm: Howard Schneider, former Pulitzer-Prize winning editor of Newsday and dean of the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University.
April 7, 7:00 pm: Paul Steiger, former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and founding editor of ProPublica, the path-breaking, non-profit website for investigative journalism.
April 14, 7:00 pm: Harold Evans, former editor of The Times of London and the Sunday Times, former president of Random House, author of the best-selling memoir My Paper Chase.
All events presented in the Garden Room at the Cleveland Botanical Garden,11030 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106. Light refreshments and a book signing will follow each talk. There is no admission charge and free parking is available.
A One-Act Musical: February 26
Mr. Death and the Redheaded Woman, a new one-act musical, Friday, February 26, 8:00pm: You are cordially invited to join Department faculty to celebrate the premiere of a new one-act musical by Shelley Costa Bloomfield (GRS '83), the president of Friends of English. River Street Playhouse of the Chagrin Valley Little Theatre, 56 River Street, Chagrin Falls, Ohio. TICKETS: $10. For more information, check out the Alumi and Friends site.
Writing Week: April 2010
Writing Week celebrates the spectrum of writing going on at CWRU -- from academic prose of all kinds to poetry, fiction, journalism, public relations, and scientific communication. This year's events will occur throughout the month of April. For more information: http://www.case.edu/writingweek
International Society for the Study of Narrative: April 8-11
April 8-11: 25th Anniversary Meeting of the ISSN. 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.
Fall 2009 Events
Poetry in the Garden. Saturday, October 3 from 2:00-5:00 at Cleveland Botanical Garden (registration at 1:30pm). Local and national poets share their work in the idyllic setting of the Cleveland Botanical Garden, revealing the role played by nature in their work. The day also includes a poetry contest, book signing and reception. This event is co-sponsored by Cleveland Botanical Garden. Support provided by the Helen Buchman Sharnoff Endowed Fund for Poetry at Case Western Reserve. Pre-registration required for free admission to garden. Poets include Joanna Klink (Harvard University), Kazim Ali (Oberlin College), Michael Dumanis (Cleveland State University), Sarah Gridley (Case Western Reserve) and Mary Quade (Hiram College). Also, submit to the Poetry in the Garden Poety Contest, by September 11, 2009.
Booked for Lunch: A Conversation with Local Novelists. Saturday, October 10, 12:00-3:30 pm. Join us for 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 21. For more information click, check out the ALUMNI AND FRIENDS page.
An Evening of Buster Keaton Short Films. Friday, November 13, 7:30pm, at Cleveland Cinematheque.This screening of Buster Keaton's films will be accompanied by Cleveland Institute of Music doctoral student Shuai Bertalan-Wang, who will play a selection of ragtime music by the composer Scott Joplin. The program is curated and introduced by Robert Spadoni, Associate Professor, Film Studies, Case Western Reserve University Department of English. $8 admission, $6 with a CWRU or CIA student ID or Cinematheque membership and for Case Friends of English and children under 12. Sponsored by the Case Western Reserve University Department of English and Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and the Cleveland Cinematheque (11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106). Download the flier here.
2008-2009 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."
Readings of Poetry and Prose
- 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
- Macintyre Award 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 2.