English Department Events
Fall 2009
Coffee House Reading Series
The Coffee House Reading Series is a monthly reading of creative writing at the Barnes & Noble Café in the Power Center on Forbes Avenue. Organized and sponsored by Duquesne University’s English Department, the series aims to develop the creative writing and arts community on Duquesne’s campus by inviting established writers to present their work along side the work of students and other emerging writers. You can view the current semester's schedule of readings below. For more information, contact friedj@duq.edu.
ALL READINGS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE BARNES & NOBLE CAFÉ,
POWER CENTER
Monday, September 28 7:00 pm
Shawn Klocek, student and winner of the Carroll Creative Writing Award & Justin Kishbaugh, Ph.D. candidate
Monday, October 26 7:00 pm
Bill Kirchner, fiction writer & Michael Begnal, poet
Thursday, November 19 7:00 pm
Susan Kelley-Stamerra, creative non-fiction & Rebecca Godfrey, creative non-fiction
Visiting Speakers
Coming in Spring 2010...
March
Romana Huk & Peter Holland TBA
April
Linda Hogan TBA
Colloquia
Friday, September 18 3:00 pm 220 College Hall
Featuring Suzanne Cook, presenting "Macheath at the Scaffold: Fetishization of the Criminal Body in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera" and Melissa Wehler, presenting "Revising Ophelia: Joanna Baillie's Orra and the Tradition of Madwomen"
Friday, October 16 3:00 pm 220 College Hall
Featuring Dr. Linda Kinnahan, presenting "Mina Loy's War Poems, Hans Bellmar's Photographs, and Surrealism's Broken Body"
Friday, November 13 3:00 pm 220 College Hall
Featuring Mary Parish, presenting "9/11 and the Limitations of the 'Man's Man' Construction of Masculinity in Don DLillo's Falling Man" and Megan Kelly, presenting "Gender vs. Race: Constructing Conflict and Perpetuating Racial Patriarchy"
Dissertation Presentations
Thursday, October 29 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Richard Clark will present his dissertation, "Fitzgerald in the late 1910s: War and Women", on Thursday, October 29. The dissertation argues for a reconsideration of F. Scott Fitzgerald's early fiction. ( Director: Linda Kinnahan, First Reader: Frederick Newberry, Second Reader: Greg Barnhisel)
Friday, November 20 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Julie Kloo will present her dissertation, "The Architecture of the Great House in the Contemporary PostColonial Novel", on Friday, November 20. ( Director: Magali Cornier Michael, First Reader: Laura Callanan, Second Reader: Judy Suh)
Faculty Presentations
Wednesday, October 28 3:00 pm Duquesne Room
Dr. Linda Kinnahan was chosen as a recipient of the Paluse Faculty Research Award through the Center for the Study of Catholic Social Thought. She will present her paper, "The Poetry of Mina Loy, The Catholic Worker, and Radical Representations of Poverty," along with three other recipients at the First Annual Paluse Lecture Series, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Catholic Social Thought.
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