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ENGLISH AT MINNESOTA 2003-2004 EVENTS CALENDAR ESTHER FREIER LECTURES f R E E A N D O P E N T O T H E P U B L I C Arnold Rampersad OCTOBER 10 2003 WEISMAN ART MUSEUM 7:30 P.M. Lecture 8:30 p.m. reception A.S. Byatt APRIL 17 2004 TED MANN CONCERT HALL 7:30 P.M. Lecture 8:30 p.m. reception Arnold Rampersad brings to the complex art of biography such meticulous scholarship, political intelligence, and elegant writing that his books have become required reading on his subjects. W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Arthur Ashe, and Jackie Robinson are the disparate but distinguished figures of his four major works. Rampersad’s signal achievement not only reveals the life of each individual but also illuminates the larger cultural life of this country. A discerning editor, he has compiled and introduced a new collection of the works of Langston Hughes and critical essays on Richard Wright. Rampersad is also one of the editors of the monumental Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Born in Trinidad, Rampersad received a BA and MA from Bowling Green and an MA and PhD from Harvard University. At the start of his academic career he was a Melville specialist. He has taught at Rutgers, Columbia, and Princeton Universities, and since 1998 he has been the Sara Hart Kimball Professor of English at Stanford University. The recipient of many honors, Rampersad was appointed a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 1991 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. A.S. Byatt could be the patron saint of bookworms. She describes her often-bedridden child self as having been “kept alive by fictions” — mostly the novels of Dickens, Austen and Scott. She has always been a “greedy reader,” who weaves her many interests — biology, history, philosophy among them — into her work. The results are novels with, as she has often stated, “the whole world in them,” books that teem with characters and ideas, books in which reading and writing usually prove a matter of life, death and freedom.Byatt achieved best-seller status in the United States in 1990 with her Booker Prize-winning novel Possession: A Romance, a story about a clandestine love affair between two Victorian writers and the two modern-day academics who unearth their secret; the novel was made into a film in 2002. Her novella Morpho Eugenia, in which she examines the similarities between anthills and 19th century manor households, was made into the film Angels and Insects. Byatt’s other fiction includes The Biographer’s Tale, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, The Matisse Stories and the recently completed quartet of novels about the 1950s and 1960s (The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman). The department of English partners with Twin Cities Public Television’s Minnesota Channel 17 to tape and broadcast the Esther Freier lectures. Each lecture will be shown at least three times on TPT channel 17’s Minnesota Channel. Please note that the lectures will NOT be broadcast live on the above dates. The only way to see the lectures live is at the events.
EDELSTEIN-KELLER V I S I T I N G W R I T E R S f R E E A N D O P E N T O T H E P U B L I C Minnesota Poetry Festival OCTOBER 3-4 2003 Jane Hirshfield & Charles Simic with with Juan Felipe Herrera, Angela Shannon, Anna Meek & Greg Hewett. CMU THEATRE Coffman Memorial Union University of Minnesota, East Bank Reading Friday Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. Reception & Book Signing 9:00 p.m. Reading Sat., Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. Reception & Book Signing 9:00 p.m CHARLES BAXTER OCTOBER 28 2003 The Edelstein-Keller Distinguished Chair in Creative Writing, Charles Baxter, will deliver a lecture titled “GREAT FACES.” A.I. JOHNSON GREAT ROOM McNamara Alumni Center 7:30 p.m. Lecture 8:30 p.m. Reception, Book Signing LORRIE MOORE November 11 2003 Lorrie Moore is the author of the best-selling collection of stories, Birds of America. Her other books include Like Life, Self-Help, Anagrams, and Who Will Run the Frog Hospital CMU THEATRE Coffman Memorial Union 7:30 p.m. Reading 8:30 p.m. Reception, Book Signing HTTP://ENGLISH.CLA.UMN.EDU 612.625.6366 CREAWRIT@UMN.EDU verlyn klinkenborg february 16-17 2004 Verlyn Klinkenborg comes from a family of Iowa farmers and is the author of Making Hay and The Last Fine Time. A member of the editorial board of the New York Times, he has written for The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, National Geographic, Mother Jones, and the New York Times Magazine, among others. His essays on rural life are a beloved regular feature in the New York Times. He lives on a small farm in upstate New York. VENUE AND TIME TBA aNDREA BARRETT MARCH 10 2004 Andrea Barrett combines, as the critic Michiko Kakutani put it, "a naturalist's eye with a novelist's imagination." For the award-winning novelist and short-story writer, natural science, particularly nineteenth-century natural history, is a central preoccupation, and scientists and naturalists such as Linnaeus, Darwin, and Mendel frequently figure in her work. WEISMAN ART MUSEUM 7:30 p.m. Reading 8:30p.m. Reception & Book Signing judy blunt april 20 2004 Raised on a Montana ranch four hours from the nearest cities of any size (Great Falls and Billings), offered in marriage at age eighteen by her father to a neighboring rancher twelve years her senior, Judy Blunt spent the first thirty years of her life circumscribed by traditions and responsibilities handed down by the generations of homesteaders who worked the land before her. MCNAMARA ALUMNI CTR./A.I. JOHNSON GREAT ROOM 7:30 p.m. Reading 8:30 p.m. Reception & Book Signing
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