Department Events
The Dept of English Distinguished Lecture Series presented“ Novels, Numbers, & Other Collectives” with Guest Speaker Caroline Levine, author of The Serious Pleasures of Suspense; Provoking Democracy; and Forms.
Stuart
Dybek, whose awards include a Lannan Prize, a PEN / Malamud Award, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, an O. Henry Award, and the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, gave a Reading & Craft Talk.
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Cinema Studies students attended the Toronto International Film Festival.
The Maurice Brown Memorial Poetry Reading featured Carolyn Forché, whose fellowships include the Guggenheim Foundation, Lannan Foundation, Academy of American Poets, & National Endowment for the Arts.
Outgoing Director of British Studies at Oxford, Brian Connery, and Incoming Director, Susan Lynne Beckwith, took a group of students to live in residence and study abroad at Oxford University in England.
Elizabeth
Graver gave a Reading & Craft Talk.
The American Studies Student Group at Oakland University hosted its Fourth Annual Undergraduate Conference with the 8 theme of " Boundaries."
Justin Rogers, well known Detroit Slam Poet and Faculty with InsideOut: A Literary Arts Project, held a workshop for OU Poetry Slam participants.