EVENTS: 2019 - 2020
EVENTS: 2019 - 2020
Joseph Loewenstein
”A Lab Model for the Humanities: A Timid Manifesto”
Caxton Club
Alumni Room, Old Main
Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 4 o'clock
PETER ORNER, a two-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize, is the author of six books, including his latest, Maggie Brown & Others, the novel Love and Shame and Love and the collection Esther Stories, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His memoir Am I Alone Here? was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Tin House, and Granta, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. A regular contributor to the New York Times, among other media, he has also served as editor of Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, Lavil: Life, Love and Death in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives. The recipient of the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Fullbright to Namibia, Orner holds the Darmouth Professorship of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.
Peter Orner
Caxton Club
Alumni Room, Old Main
Friday, October 4, 2019 at 4 o'clock
In his talk, "A Lab Model for the Humanities: A Timid Manifesto," JOSEPH LOEWENSTEIN will begin with a reflection on how digital humanities might contribute to developments in literary scholarship, developments that will entail methodological recovery as well as pedagogical innovation. This prologue will give way to a focus on project-oriented pedagogy in the humanities, a reorientation that could also be described as an appropriation, for the humanities, of the lab as an institution for uniting research and pedagogy. Thereafter, a double conclusion: a modest proposal, consisting of guidelines for the humanities lab instructor, and a discussion, in which the skeptical will be invited to protest the irrelevance of this model for their own pedagogical and research agendas.
Loewenstein is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, where he serves as Director of the Humanities Digital Workshop and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities.
Credit: Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photos
GINA FRANCO’s book of poems, The Accidental, was awarded the 2019 CantoMundo Poetry Prize. It will be published with the University of Arkansas Press in Fall of 2019. Set primarily in the borderlands of the American southwest, the collection reflects on the strangeness of accident and its role in creating the lives we are born into. Her first book, The Keepsake Storm, published with the University of Arizona Press, interrogates the uneasy alliance between the vehemence of memory and the surrealism of narrative, especially in light of language, place, faith, and identity. She keeps a journal of photographs at reli[e]able signs that reflects her travels between Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas—where her family lives—and Illinois, where she and her husband live and work most of the year. She teaches poetry writing, 18th & 19th-century British literature, Gothic literature, poetry translation, Borderland writing, religion and literature, and literary theory at Knox, where she is a Professor of English.
HAI-DANG PHAN is the author of Reenactments: Poems and Translations (Sarabande, 2019) and the poetry chapbook Small Wars (Convulsive Editions, 2016). His writing has been recognized by fellowships and scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the American Literary Translators Association, and has appeared in Lana Turner, New England Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and Best American Poetry 2016. Born in Vietnam, he grew up in Wisconsin and currently lives in Iowa City.
