Wednesday, February 15 - James M. Lang

On Wednesday, February 15, James M. Lang, author of two recent books, Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Years (Johns Hopkins University Press 2005) and Learning Sickness: A Year with Crohn's Disease (Capital Books 2004), will read at 8 pm in the Studio Theatre of the McDade Center for Literary and Performing Arts.  The public is invited. He will also meet with students in Joe Kraus's WRTG 214 creative nonfiction workshop on Wednesday afternoon. Lang is an assistant professor of English at Assumption College in Worcester, MA.

According to Kraus, visiting assistant professor, Life on the Tenure Track “grows out of a series of columns that Jim wrote for The Chronicle of Higher Education, and offers a range of insights and reactions to being a young prof.  I think both students and faculty will be instructed and amused by Jim's narrative.” 

Kraus notes that Lang's other book gives a sometimes “harrowing account of what it was like for Jim as he learned to live with a sense of himself as a ‘sick person,’ as someone afflicted with a disease that could be ‘managed’ but not done away with.”  There is a website for Learning Sickness: A Year with Crohn's Disease, it includes a weekly diary, shared stories, and a resources page with further links for dealing with the disease.

Both books will be available for purchase in the University Bookstore.

For more information, contact
 Joe Kraus,
Department of English.

All University Reading Series Events are free and open to the public.

Wednesday, April 5 - Colette Inez

On Wednesday, April 5, Colette Inez, author and adjunct associate professor at Columbia University, will read from her memoir, The Secret of M. Dulong (University of Wisconsin Press 2005).  A distinguished, award-winning poet with many books of poetry in print, Inez was a guest of the URS in the late 1980s, according to Hill.  “Now she's coming back to read from her autobiographical memoir, a fascinating story of her life's beginning as the child of a Belgian priest and a French intellectual and the curious, often poignant account of her upbringing in Europe and the United States.  I happened to read a section of Colette's memoir in manuscript some years ago, and the book is a typical Inez production, colorful, witty and wise.”  Inez will read at 8 pm in the Studio Theatre in McDade.  The public is invited.  She will also meet informally with students from Hill's WRTG 216 poetry workshop and Kraus's WRTG 214 creative nonfiction workshop to discuss the writing craft.

For more information, contact
John Meredith Hill,
Department of English.

All University Reading Series Events are free and open to the public.

Wednesday, May 10 - Cate Marvin

A reading will take place on Wednesday, May 10, featuring Cate Marvin, poet and assistant professor of creative writing at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.  More information is available by clicking here, or:

For more information, contact
John Meredith Hill,
Department of English.

All University Reading Series Events are free and open to the public.