Events
Thursday, September 18, 5 p.m. Combs 139
Sheryl St. Germain
Visiting poet and writer of creative nonfiction from Chatham University in Pittsburgh where she is the director of their MFA program. She will be reading from her new book of poetry, Let It Be a Dark Roux. A signing and reception will follow.
Monday, October 20, 5 p.m., The Big House
Margaret Gibson has received, among other prizes and awards, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellowship, and grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. She is Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut. A native of Richmond, Virginia, she now lives in Preston, Connecticut. She will be reading from her new book of poetry, One Body, published by LSU Press in 2007. A signing and reception will follow.
Thursday, October 30, 5 P.m., Combs 139
Steve Watkins will read from his new novel, Down Sand Mountain as part of a special Thursday Poems event. Please join us at 'the big house' afterwards for a reception to celebrate.
Wednesday, november 5, 6 p.m., Combs 139
Professor Cynthia Ho, Director of the Humanities Program, University of North Carolina, Asheville, will present a lecture in the Simpson Lecture Series: "Handylng Sinne" and the Manipulation of Tales." A reception will follow.
Tuesday, november 18, 7:30 p.m., great hall, woodard campus center
Pioneering sociolinguist Walt Wolfram, the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of English at North Carolina State University at Raleigh, directs the North Carolina Language and Life Project. The project researches and documents the rich variety of language and culture in that state, one of the most linguistically diverse in the U.S. A reception will follow.
Dr. Wolfram has produced numerous documentary films and served as linguistic adviser for Sesame Street. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 articles and 20 books including Dialects in Schools and Communities, American English: Dialects and Variation; American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast; The Development of African American English; Fine in the World: Lumbee Language in Time and Place; and Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue.
This event is sponsored by the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, with the support of the Departments of Education, Geography, Historical Preservation, Modern Foreign Languages, Psychology, and Sociology/Anthropology, and the Campus Academic Resources Committee.
For information, please contact Dr. Judith Parker, Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, at 540-654-1538 or jparker@umw.edu.
Regular Events:
Thursday Poems (click for schedule)
CREative Writing Concentration Reading Series
Graduate school Forum
Linguistics Speakers series
Careers for English Majors
William Kemp Symposium
Past Events
2007-2008
TRA Amici: A Symposium In honor of Giuseppe mazzotta
March 27-30, 2008 at the University of Mary Washington.
Please click here to visit the symposium website.
Author and Poet Fred Chappell readING
Fred Chappell read from his poetry and fiction on
Thursday, November 15
5-6 pm, Combs 139
A signing followed the reading.
Fred Davis Chappell (b. May 28, 1936 in Canton, North Carolina) is an author and poet who taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He retired in 2004. He was born in Canton, North Carolina and was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997-2002. He attended Duke University.
His 1986 novel Dagon, which was named the Best Foreign Book of the Year by the Academie Française, is a recasting of a Cthulhu Mythos horror story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic.
His literary awards include the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers, the Bollingen Prize, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Bibliography:
* Awakening to Music, Briarpatch Press, 1979.
* Backsass, LSU Press, 2004.
* Bloodfire: A Poem, LSU Press, 1978.
* Brighten the Corner Where You Are, St. Martin's, 1989.
* Castle Tzingal, LSU Press, 1984.
* Dagon, Harcourt, 1968, reprinted, St. Martin's, 1986.
* Driftlake: A Lieder Cycle, Iron Mountain Press, 1981.
* Earthsleep: A Poem, LSU Press, 1980.
* Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You.
* Family Gathering, LSU Press, 2000.
* First and Last Words, LSU Press, 1989.
* The Fred Chappell Reader, St. Martin's, 1987.
* The Gaudy Place, Harcourt, 1973.
* I Am One of You Forever, LSU Press, 1985.
* The Inkling, Harcourt, 1965.
* It Is Time, Lord, Atheneum, 1963.
* Look Back All the Green Valley, 1996.
* The Man Twice Married by Fire, Unicorn Press, 1975.
* Midquest: A Poem (contains "River: A Poem", "Bloodfire: A Poem", "Windmountain: A Poem", and "Earthsleep: A Poem"), LSU Press, 1981.
* Moments of Light, New South Co., 1980.
* More Shapes Than One, 1991.
* Plow Naked: Selected Writings on Poetry, University of Michigan Press, 1993.
* River: A Poem, LSU Press, 1975.
* Source, LSU Press, 1986.
* Spring Garden: New and Selected Poems, LSU Press, 1995.
* Wind Mountain: A Poem, LSU Press, 1979.
* A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry, Picador, 1998.
* The World Between the Eyes, LSU Press, 1971.
Linguist John Baugh to speak on Accent Discrimination and Linguistic Profiling
"Linguistic Profiling in the African Diaspora: Voice Discrimination in the U.S. and South Africa"
Dr. John Baugh will speak on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. in the Great Hall
For more information, please click the following link:
http://www.umw.edu/cas/els/linguistics/linguistics_speaker_series1.php
POET AND NOVELIST TO READ FROM WORK AT UMW
Award-winning poet and novelist Julianna Baggott will read from her work at the University of Mary Washington on Tuesday, October 30 at 5 p.m. in Combs Hall, Room 139. The event is free and open to the public.
Baggott, assistant professor of English at Florida State University, published her first novel, “Girl Talk,” in 2001. “Girl Talk” was a national bestseller and was published by six publishing houses overseas. She has written several collections of poetry including most recently, “Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees,” which won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series from Pleiades Press. Baggott’s debut novel for children under the pen name N.E. Bode, “The Anybodies,” was a Children’s Book of the Month Club selection, a Washington Post Book-of-the-Week, a Booksense selection and a People magazine book pick.
Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Ms. Magazine, Glamour, TriQuarterly, and Best American Poetry 2000, as well as on NPR’s “Here and Now” and “Talk of the Nation.” In addition, she broadcasts monthly hour-long specials in the voice of N.E. Bode on the XMRadio channel, XMKids.
The UMW Bookstore will be selling Baggot’s poetry books as well as her novel, “The Madam.” For more information on the event, contact the Department of English, Linguistics, and Speech at (540) 654-1035.
News release prepared by: Brynn Boyer
Professor and Novelist to Sign New Book
Dr. Warren Rochelle will be signing his new novel, Harvest of Changelings on
Thursday, November 8
10 am - 12 noon
at the UMW Bookstore.
Books will available for purchase at a 20% discount from the jacket price.
Lois Parkinson Zamora
John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor of English, History, and Art
University of Houston
"The Baroque Self: Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Frida Kahlo"
Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007
5 pm
Trinkle 204
(sponsored by the Simpson Chair in English and MDFL--and occuring in conjunction with "Latino Identities: A Month-Long Celebration").
UMW PRESIDENT TO LECTURE ON IMPORTANCE OF DICTIONARIES, NOV. 13, 2006
Fredericksburg, Va. – William J. Frawley, University of Mary Washington president and distinguished university professor of linguistics, delivered a lecture titled “What are Dictionaries and Why are They Important?” on November 13 at 7 p.m. in George Washington Hall, Dodd Auditorium.
His talk looked at such issues as the variety of forms dictionaries may take, the kinds of decisions made by those who compile dictionaries, and the future of dictionary-making. The lecture, which is a Linguistics Speaker Series event, was open to the public without charge.
A member of The Dictionary Society of North America’s executive board and the advisory board of Oxford University’s U.S. Dictionary Projects, Dr. Frawley is the editor of Dictionaries. He has served on the editorial board of numerous academic journals, as well as the Center for Innovation in Public Service. Currently he represents the Linguistic Society of America on the Consortium of Social Science Associations.
Dr. Frawley’s academic specializations in linguistics include meaning systems, cognitive and computational architectures of language, and discourse and text structure. He has worked in and on a variety of languages, including Spanish, French, Polish, Russian and German. He has lectured and taught at academic institutes in Hungary, Poland and Morocco, in addition to his recent tenure as dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University.
Dr. Frawley became the seventh president of the University of Mary Washington on July 1, 2006. He holds a doctorate from Northwestern University and a master’s degree from Louisiana State University, both in linguistics. He graduated magna cum laude with a degree in English from Glassboro State College, now Rowan University.
For more information about the lecture, call Prof. Christina Kakava at (540) 654-1548 or Prof. Judith Parker at (540) 654-1538.
(News release prepared by: Andrea Christie)
UMW PROFESSOR TO READ FROM AND SIGN NEW BOOK, OCT. 24 and OCT. 27, 2006
Fredericksburg, Va. - Steve Watkins, associate professor of English at the University of Mary Washington, will read excerpts from his book, My Chaos Theory, on Tuesday, October 24 at 5 p.m. in Combs Hall, Room 139. He’ll also be reading and signing books Friday, October 27 at 7 p.m. in downtown Fredericksburg at Riverby Books, on Caroline Street.
The reading will be followed by a book signing and reception, with copies of his book available for purchase for $22.50 plus tax (hardback).
My Chaos Theory, a collection of a dozen short stories described as funny and odd, is Dr. Watkins’ first book of fiction and has just been released by Southern Methodist University Press. The settings of the short stories include the Deep South, Texas, New York, Kenya and India. Collectively they tell the coming-of-age stories of men and boys.
The stories in the collection were previously published in literary magazines and anthologies. Several received literary honors, including the Pushcart Prize, citation in Best American Short Stories, winner of the Snake Nation Press short story award and second place in the Playboy Magazine short story competition. The collection itself was a finalist for the prestigious Flannery O’Conner Award for Short Fiction. Dr. Watkins is scheduled to appear at the Virginia Festival of the Book this spring.
“It’s been nice, after giving birth to these stories, to get to watch them grow up and go out into the world,” said Dr. Watkins. “It’s also nice to see them together in a book like this with all their siblings. It’s like a family reunion.”
Dr. Watkins also is the author of The Black O: Racism and Redemption in an American Corporate Empire, a non-fiction account of the largest employment discrimination class-action lawsuit in United States history. It received the Virginia College Stores Book Award and was a finalist for the Southern Regional Council’s non-fiction book award.
In addition to his faculty position at the university, Dr. Watkins teaches Ashtanga yoga and works as an investigator and advocate for abused and neglected children through Court Appointed Special Advocates, a child advocacy organization.
(Source: Office of News and Public Information, University of Mary Washington)
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