Department of Literature Presents

Jericho Brown on Contemporary Poetry

An Evening with Jericho Brown Faith in the Now: Some Notes on Poetry and Immortality

March 9, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

Craft Talk: Nonsense and Senselessness

March 10, 2022, 12:30 p.m.

Jericho Brown

Jericho Brown is the author of three collections of poetry: The Tradition (2019), a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets; and Please (New Issues, 2008), which won the 2009 American Book Award. He grew up in Louisiana and worked as a speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before earning his PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. He also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans and graduated magna cum laude from Dillard University. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.

A Workshop with Dr. Regina N. Bradley

March 4, 2021, Noon

Dr. Bradley will host a workshop for Georgia Southern University students. This workshop will start with a brief reading, followed by a discussion of representations of the Hip Hop South.

The Rise of The Hip-Hop South: An Outkasted Theorization

March 4, 2021, 6 p.m.

Join us for an evening with hip hop scholar Dr. Bradley. In her new book, Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South (2021), Bradley explores how Atlanta, GA hip hop duo OutKast influences the culture of the Black American South in the long shadow of the Civil Rights Movement.

Dr. Regina N. Bradley

Dr. Bradley is the author of Chronicling Stankonia: the Rise of the Hip-Hop South. Chronicling Stankonia explores how Atlanta, GA hip hop duo OutKast influences the culture of the Black American South in the long shadow of the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Bradley is also the editor of a collection of essays about OutKast for the University of Georgia Press titled An OutKast Reader.

Dancing with The Dead: Lessons from Late Medieval Culture About Death, Dying, & Grief

October 29, 2020, 5 p.m.

Dr. Ashby Kinch

Professor of English, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, University of Montana

Founding president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society Emeritus Professor of English, Hartwick College

English Queens in The Tudor Age

Changelings, Bastards, and Fantasy Children: Fertility, Infertility, and English Queens

March 11, 2020, 12:20 p.m.

Can a Woman Rule? Can a Woman Rule Alone? The Case of Elizabeth I

March 12, 2020, 5 p.m.

Dr. Carole Levin

Willa Cather Professor of History at the University of Nebraska

Carole Levin is the Willa Gather Professor of History at the University of Nebraska. She is the author of the groundbreaking Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power, along with many other books on topics as diverse as Shakespeare, English queens, and dreaming in the Renaissance. She is also the author of three plays and a children’s book about Elizabeth I.

Writing Elizabeth Bishop: A Biographer’s Journey

Statesboro

February 11, 2020, 5 p.m.

Savannah

February 12, 2020, 6:30 p.m.

Thomas Travisano

Founding president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society Emeritus Professor of English, Hartwick College

Thomas Travisano, author and editor of a number of works on Elizabeth Bishop will speak in two distinct formats on his forty-year-long journey across three continents that led to his new biography from Viking/Penguin, Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop.