ENGLISH NEWS
NEW: English Course Schedule for Spring 2010
Upcoming Events
Poetry in the Garden. Saturday, October 3 from 2:00-5:00 at Cleveland Botanical Garden (registration at 1:30pm). Local and national poets share their work in the idyllic setting of the Cleveland Botanical Garden, revealing the role played by nature in their work. The day also includes a poetry contest, book signing and reception. This event is co-sponsored by Cleveland Botanical Garden. Support provided by the Helen Buchman Sharnoff Endowed Fund for Poetry at Case Western Reserve. Pre-registration required for free admission to garden. Poets include Joanna Klink (Harvard University), Kazim Ali (Oberlin College), Michael Dumanis (Cleveland State University), Sarah Gridley (Case Western Reserve) and Mary Quade (Hiram College). Also, submit to the Poetry in the Garden Poety Contest, by September 11, 2009.
Booked for Lunch: A Conversation with Local Novelists. Saturday, October 10, 12:00-3:30 pm. Join us for an elegant buffet lunch with an opportunity to mingle with local writers, followed by a panel discussion with Sarah Willis, Mary Doria Russell, and Michael Grant Jaffe. WCPN's Dee Perry will moderate. The event concludes with Q&A and a book signing. Registration is $35. and seating is limited, so register early. Deadline is September 21. For more information click, check out the ALUMNI AND FRIENDS page.
An Evening of Buster Keaton Short Films. Friday, November 13, 7:30pm, at Cleveland Cinematheque.This screening of Buster Keaton's films will be accompanied by Cleveland Institute of Music doctoral student Shuai Bertalan-Wang, who will play a selection of ragtime music by the composer Scott Joplin. The program is curated and introduced by Robert Spadoni, Associate Professor, Film Studies, Case Western Reserve University Department of English. $8 admission, $6 with a CWRU or CIA student ID or Cinematheque membership and for Case Friends of English and children under 12. Sponsored by the Case Western Reserve University Department of English and Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and the Cleveland Cinematheque (11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106). Download the flier here.
25th anniversary meeting of the International Society for the Study of Narrative; April 2010. Keynote speakers: Greil Marcus, Rita Charon, Susan Stanford Friedman. Event sites at CWRU, the Renaissance Hotel, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Details at narrative.
Recent events
Writing Week
The English Department and the Center for the Study of Writing announce the University's inaugural Writing Week, which celebrates the full spectrum of writing at Case Western Reserve. More info at writingweek or on the poster. Highlights include:
- Gerald Graff on “The Centrality of Argument” (4/15/09)
- Anne Curzan on “Rules for Writers: Who Writes these Rules Anyway?” (4/16/09)
- Student Creative Readings & Performances (4/16/09)
- Susan Wells on “Legible Bodies—Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Rhetoric of Dissection” (4/17/09)
- Faculty & Alumni Fiction Reading (4/18/09
Wain Lecture Series (details on the poster)
- Feb. 25: John Lahr on "Comedy and Revenge."
- March 25: Philip Gourevitch on "Extreme Reporting: Inhabiting the story from Rwanda to Abu Ghraib."
- April 1: Tina Brown on "Feeding 'The Daily Beast': Re-inventing Journalism for the Internet." video
- April 15: Suzanne Braun Levine on "How the Woman's Movement has Re-framed the American Narrative."
Poetry and prose for spring
- Poetry reading, Forrest Gander. Clark 309, March 31, 7:00 pm. It will include the work of Jeremy Safran, who organized the event as his senior capstone project, and other students
- Poetry reading, Ruth Schwarz. April 9, Guilford Parlor, 4:30 pm
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- Macintyre award festivities, for best essay by a graduate student, part of writing week.
- English banquet, announcing 2009 contest award winners and introducing the capstone projects in English, tentatively scheduled for April 26