Past Events
Lecture by Dr. Jackson Bryer
Dr. Jackson Bryer, Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park spoke about The Great Gatsby.
November 5th, 2009
Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall
Announcement (PDF)
Lecture by Dr. Jackson Bryer
Dr. Jackson Bryer, Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park spoke about The Great Gatsby.
November 5th, 2009
Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall
Announcement (PDF)
Pearce Shakespeare Endowment Concert
Music of Shakespeare′s England, performed by The City Musick. An early music instrumental ensemble, The City Musick, will be giving a program called “The Topping Tooters of the Town: The Music of the City Waits 1500-1700”, with an emphasis on the music associated with the theatre in Shakespeare’s working lifetime (1585-1616). October 20, 2009 7:00 pm Tuthill Auditorium, Hassell Hall.
Alumnae Fiction Reading
Former stars of the Rhodes College Creative Writing Program, Aisha Sharif, Christina LaPrease and Caki Wilkinson, read samples of their work. September 17th, 2009 in Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall.
Pearce Shakespeare Endowment Concert
Music of Shakespeare′s England, performed by The City Musick. An early music instrumental ensemble, The City Musick, will be giving a program called “The Topping Tooters of the Town: The Music of the City Waits 1500-1700”, with an emphasis on the music associated with the theatre in Shakespeare’s working lifetime (1585-1616). October 20, 2009 7:00 pm Tuthill Auditorium, Hassell Hall.
Alumnae Fiction Reading
Former stars of the Rhodes College Creative Writing Program, Aisha Sharif, Christina LaPrease and Caki Wilkinson, read samples of their work. September 17th, 2009 in Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall.
Shakespeare Birthday Lectures:
The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare scholars Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University) and Leah Marcus (Vanderbilt University) discussed the challenges to editing and interpreting "The Taming of the Shrew" and related plays on April 24, 2009. This event was in conjunction with the McCoy Theatre′s production of Shakespeare′s play. Sponsored by the Department of English and the Gender & Sexuality Studies (GSS) Program. For information, contact Professor Scott Newstok, 901-843-3794.
Ralph Ellison Lecture
Ralph Ellison Lecture
Scholar Adam Bradley discussed his edition of Ralph Ellison′s second novel, "Three Days Before the Shooting,” to be published by Random House in 2009. Ralph Ellison spent nearly forty years composing his second novel, a follow-up to his 1952 classic, Invisible Man. While he kept writing until just before his death in 1994, he would never finish the book. Instead, Ellison left behind thousands of pages of notes, typescript drafts, and computer print-outs that together comprise an expansive vision of his novel so long in-progress. For fifteen years, the vast majority of this material has been restricted from public view. With the publication of Three Days Before the Shooting... in 2009, readers and scholars alike will have the opportunity to see what Ellison kept to himself for more than half his life. Adam Bradley has been working with Ellison′s manuscripts in one capacity or another since he was nineteen years-old, first as a research assistant to Ellison′s literary executor, John Callahan, and now as co-editor with Professor Callahan on this unprecedented posthumous publication. While a small, but significant portion of Ellison′s second novel was published as Juneteenth in 1999, the vast majority of Three Days Before the Shooting... will be new to readers. April 02, 2009
Hip-Hop Lecture
Hip-hop scholar Adam Bradley discussed his new study, "Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop." Rap may be the most revolutionary development in poetry over the past thirty years, and whenyet its originality is often hidden in plain sight. Beneath the beat, the bluster, and the hype, the heart of hip hop lies in its lyrics. Book of Rhymes explores America′s least understood poets, unpacking their complex craft and according them the respect they deserve as lyricists. Examining the language and techniques of hip hop′s most memorable artists, Book of Rhymes argues that a new world of rhythm and rhyme awaits us if we only put aside our preconceptions and approach rap with new ears and new eyes. Featuring lyrics and wisdom from Melle Mel, William Shakespeare, Run-DMC, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rakim, Emily Dickinson, Public Enemy, T. S. Eliot, De La Soul, Langston Hughes, A Tribe Called Quest, William Butler Yeats, The Notorious B. I. G., Robert Frost, Tupac, Edward Hirsch, Jay-Z, Derek Walcott, Eminem, Frances Mayes, Kanye West, Ted Kooser, Lil Wayne, and more. Sponsored by the departments of English and African American Studies, and the Black Student Association (BSA). April 01, 2009
Reading by Elizabeth Crane
Hip-hop scholar Adam Bradley discussed his new study, "Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop." Rap may be the most revolutionary development in poetry over the past thirty years, and whenyet its originality is often hidden in plain sight. Beneath the beat, the bluster, and the hype, the heart of hip hop lies in its lyrics. Book of Rhymes explores America′s least understood poets, unpacking their complex craft and according them the respect they deserve as lyricists. Examining the language and techniques of hip hop′s most memorable artists, Book of Rhymes argues that a new world of rhythm and rhyme awaits us if we only put aside our preconceptions and approach rap with new ears and new eyes. Featuring lyrics and wisdom from Melle Mel, William Shakespeare, Run-DMC, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rakim, Emily Dickinson, Public Enemy, T. S. Eliot, De La Soul, Langston Hughes, A Tribe Called Quest, William Butler Yeats, The Notorious B. I. G., Robert Frost, Tupac, Edward Hirsch, Jay-Z, Derek Walcott, Eminem, Frances Mayes, Kanye West, Ted Kooser, Lil Wayne, and more. Sponsored by the departments of English and African American Studies, and the Black Student Association (BSA). April 01, 2009
Reading by Elizabeth Crane
Hip-hop scholar Adam Bradley discussed his new study, "Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop." Rap may be the most revolutionary development in poetry over the past thirty years, and whenyet its originality is often hidden in plain sight. Beneath the beat, the bluster, and the hype, the heart of hip hop lies in its lyrics. Book of Rhymes explores America′s least understood poets, unpacking their complex craft and according them the respect they deserve as lyricists. Examining the language and techniques of hip hop′s most memorable artists, Book of Rhymes argues that a new world of rhythm and rhyme awaits us if we only put aside our preconceptions and approach rap with new ears and new eyes. Featuring lyrics and wisdom from Melle Mel, William Shakespeare, Run-DMC, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rakim, Emily Dickinson, Public Enemy, T. S. Eliot, De La Soul, Langston Hughes, A Tribe Called Quest, William Butler Yeats, The Notorious B. I. G., Robert Frost, Tupac, Edward Hirsch, Jay-Z, Derek Walcott, Eminem, Frances Mayes, Kanye West, Ted Kooser, Lil Wayne, and more. Sponsored by the departments of English and African American Studies, and the Black Student Association (BSA). April 01, 2009
Reading by Elizabeth Crane
Elizabeth Crane is the author of two collections of short stories from Little, Brown, When the Messenger is Hot and All this Heavenly Glory. Her latest collection, You Must be Happy to Enter, is due February 2008 from Punk Planet Books. Her work has also been featured in publications including Washington Square, New York Stories, Sycamore Review, Book, Florida Review, Eclipse, Bridge, Sonora Review, The Chicago Reader, Sleepwalk, The Believer, McSweeney′s Future Dictionary of America, The Banana King, and All Hands On: The 2ndhand Reader. She received the Chicago Public Library 21st Century Award, granted by The Chicago Public Library Foundation, in October 2003. A New York City native, she now lives in Chicago with her husband and teaches writing at Northwestern′s School of Continuing Studies and The University of Chicago. Thursday, March 26h, 2009.
Medieval Literature Presentations from Students
Medieval Literature Presentations from Students
Medieval Literature Presentations from Students
Medieval Literature Presentations from Students
Medieval Literature Presentations from Students
Medieval Literature Presentations from Students
Students of Dr. Kristin Cole gave medieval literature presentations on December 6, 2008 including performances of “The Second Shepherds’ Play,” medieval music, and a modern film adaptation of “The Miller’s Tale,” the most famous of The Canterbury Tales. The presentations took place in Hardie Auditorium.
The Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society and the Department of English at Rhodes College presented:
An evening with the Creative Writing faculty authors on Thursday, November 13 at 5:00 p.m. in Blount Auditorium in Buckman Hall. English professors Tina Barr, Marshall Boswell, and Barrett Hathcock read from their works. Dr. Tina Barr directs the Creative Writing Program at Rhodes. Her book of poems, The Gathering Eye, won Editor′s Prize at Tupelo Press out of a group of 1,000 manuscripts. Dr. Marshall Boswell, a member of the Rhodes English Department since 1996, teaches courses in 20th Century American Literature and Fiction Writing. In addition to full-length studies of contemporary writers John Updike and David Foster Wallace, Boswell has published two works of fiction, the story collection Trouble with Girls, and the novel, Alternative Atlanta. Barrett Hathcock joined the Rhodes English department in August 2008. He teaches courses in fiction writing, playwriting, and screenwriting. Professor Hathcock graduated from Rhodes College in 2000.
The Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society and the Department of English at Rhodes College presented:
An evening with the Creative Writing faculty authors on Thursday, November 13 at 5:00 p.m. in Blount Auditorium in Buckman Hall. English professors Tina Barr, Marshall Boswell, and Barrett Hathcock read from their works. Dr. Tina Barr directs the Creative Writing Program at Rhodes. Her book of poems, The Gathering Eye, won Editor′s Prize at Tupelo Press out of a group of 1,000 manuscripts. Dr. Marshall Boswell, a member of the Rhodes English Department since 1996, teaches courses in 20th Century American Literature and Fiction Writing. In addition to full-length studies of contemporary writers John Updike and David Foster Wallace, Boswell has published two works of fiction, the story collection Trouble with Girls, and the novel, Alternative Atlanta. Barrett Hathcock joined the Rhodes English department in August 2008. He teaches courses in fiction writing, playwriting, and screenwriting. Professor Hathcock graduated from Rhodes College in 2000.
English Lecture Series presented Philip Weinstein, 11/06/08
Professors Philip Weinstein and Rychetta Watkins
Philip Weinstein is Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College. He teaches seminars in Modern Comparative Literature, as well as a range of courses in American and British fiction. He spoke from his current research project, entitled Dark Twins: Faulkner and Race. His publications include Henry James and the Requirements of the Imagination (Harvard Press, 1971), The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce (Princeton, 1984), Faulkner’s Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns (Cambridge, 1992), What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (Columbia, 1996), and, most recently, Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction (Cornell, 2005).
Poetry Reading by Matthea Harvey, 09/25/08
Matthea Harvey (l) with Professor Tina Barr
English Lecture Series presented Philip Weinstein, 11/06/08
Professors Philip Weinstein and Rychetta Watkins
Philip Weinstein is Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College. He teaches seminars in Modern Comparative Literature, as well as a range of courses in American and British fiction. He spoke from his current research project, entitled Dark Twins: Faulkner and Race. His publications include Henry James and the Requirements of the Imagination (Harvard Press, 1971), The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce (Princeton, 1984), Faulkner’s Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns (Cambridge, 1992), What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (Columbia, 1996), and, most recently, Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction (Cornell, 2005).
Poetry Reading by Matthea Harvey, 09/25/08
Matthea Harvey (l) with Professor Tina Barr
English Lecture Series presented Philip Weinstein, 11/06/08
Professors Philip Weinstein and Rychetta Watkins
B.A., Harvard College. M.F.A., University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Poet; author of Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000); Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004); Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007); and a children’s book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake (Soft Skull Press, 2007). Contributing editor for jubilat and BOMB. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
“Harvey is a master of the surprising, illuminating connection —the cognitive jump-cut . . . There is something of the Martian about Harvey . . . her disjunctions, reversals and bizarreries arise from her inquiry into the strangeness of sentience itself—how odd it is to think, feel and look.” —Chicago Tribune
Discussion with Sarah Lacy, 09/22/08
Sarah Lacy is an award winning journalist and author of the critically acclaimed book, Once You′re Lucky, Twice You′re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 (Gotham Books, May 2008). Lacy has been a reporter in Silicon Valley for nearly a decade, covering everything from the tiniest startups to the largest public companies. She writes a biweekly column for BusinessWeek.com called "Valley Girl" and is co-host of Yahoo! Finance′s Tech Ticker. She lives in San Francisco.
04/09/08 Creative Writing Lecture Series Presented:
Holiday Reinhorn
Holiday Reinhorn′s debut short story collection Big Cats was published in 2005 by Free Press/Simon & Schuster. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers′ Workshop; the recipient of a Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction and a Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and a finalist for the PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award. A nominee for both the Pushcart Prize and the anthology Best New American Voices, she lives in Van Nuys, California. Other work has appeared most recently in the fiction anthologies, This Is Not Chick Lit and The Worst Years of Your Life, both published by Random House. Her stories have appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Other Voices, Northwest Review, and other literary magazines.
04/08/08 English Lecture Series Presented:
Laura Chrisman
I′m of African-American, Ashkenazy Jewish and US Anglo origins, am from a Marxist, feminist and black nationalist political background, and grew up in he Highlands of Scotland; all this has influenced my research interests. I analyze the cultures of imperialism and of anti-colonialist resistance, and have a particular interest in South Africa. I am also vey interested in black Atlantic and black diaspora studies. My current interdisciplinary book project is provisionally titled Nationalism, Modernity and Transnationalism in African Intellectuals. The book focuses on black South African nationalists, and their links with African-American intellectuals of the early 20th century. http://depts.washington.edu/engl/people/profile.php?id=968
03/13/08 Creative Writing Lecture Series presented Poet Jeffrey Levine
Jeffrey Levine is the author of two Prize-winning volumes of poetry. Tom Lux has said of his work "Jeffrey Levine′s poems read like brilliant jazz riffs played by a master classcal musician. They sing. They sway. They swing." He has won the Larry Levis Prize from the Missouri Review, the James Hearst Award from the North American Review, The Missouri Review Poetry Prize, and The Kestrel Poetry Prize. Levine, a former corporate attorney, founded Tupelo Press, one of the premier small literary presses in America.
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Shakespeare in Color:
A Symposium on Macbeth and African American Performance and Appropriations
“Shakespeare in Color: A Symposium on Macbeth and African American Performances and Appropriations” will be held on Friday, Jan. 25, in Blount Auditorium from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m at Rhodes College. National scholars, local artists, a film director and a Hollywood actor will engage in a conversation about African American adaptations and casting in productions of Macbeth. The symposium is presented in conjunction with local productions of Shakespeare′s Macbeth by Hattiloo Theatre and Verdi′s Macbeth by Opera Memphis.The lecturers presenting in the morning are literary scholars working on very suggestive projects; the panels in the afternoon will be more directed towards questions of performance. Finally, the Rhodes Jazz Ensemble will perform selections from Duke Ellington’s Shakespearean suite, Such Sweet Thunder, at the closing reception. The symposium is sponsored by Rhodes’ Center for Outreach in the Development of the Arts (CODA); additional support comes from the Departments of Theatre, African American Studies, and English.
For more information, contact Professor Scott Newstok at newstoks@rhodes.edu.
01/23/08 Hamp Markel Fiction Reading
Hamp Markel ’06, who holds a B.A. in English from Rhodes, has published a story in the nationally known journal, Shenandoah. Shenandoah is published at Washington and Lee University and edited by R.T. Smith. Markel’s “Fingerprints” appears in the current issue, Volume 57, Number 2, Fall 2007. Markel wrote the story during his senior year. A creative writing student at Rhodes, Markel took four classes each with English professors Stephen Schottenfeld and Marshall Boswell, including fiction writing.
9/13/07 Creative Writing Lecture Series presented Anthony Doerr
9/13/07 Creative Writing Lecture Series presented Anthony Doerr
9/13/07 Creative Writing Lecture Series presented Anthony Doerr
9/13/07 Creative Writing Lecture Series presented Anthony Doerr
This year the Writers Reading Series brought esteemed author Anthony Doerr to Rhodes for a Fiction Reading. Doerr has published three books, The Shell Collector, About Grace, and Four Seasons in Rome. His collection of short stories, The Shell Collector, received two O. Henry Prizes, the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, the Rome Prize, and the Ohioana Book Award. The British literary magazine Granta selected Doerr as one of the twenty-one Best Young American Novelists in 2007. Doerr chose to read a short story titled "Procreate, Generate" published in the same issue of Granta. After the reading, there was a Q&A session in which Doerr answered questions about his work and fiction writing in general.
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