Past Events
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).
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).
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
Poetry Reading by Matthea Harvey, 09/25/08
Matthea Harvey (l) with Professor Tina Barr
Poetry Reading by Matthea Harvey, 09/25/08
Matthea Harvey (l) with Professor Tina Barr
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.
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For more information, contact Professor Scott Newstok at newstoks@rhodes.edu.
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.
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.
