When:
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CT
Where: Hinman Auditorium, 1710 Orrington Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Contact:
Jennifer Britton
(847) 491-7294
Group: English Department
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
A Reading by Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong is the author of Translating Mo'um, (Hanging Loose Press, 2002); Dance Dance Revolution (W.W. Norton, 2007), winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize; and Engine Empire (W.W. Norton, 2012). She is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the NEA, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her writing on politics and her reviews have appeared in the Village Voice, the Guardian, Salon, Christian Science Monitor, and New York Times Magazine. She is an associate professor at Sarah Lawrence College and is regular faculty at the Queens MFA program in Charlotte, North Carolina.
When:
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CT
Where: Hinman Auditorium, 1710 Orrington Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Contact:
Jennifer Britton
(847) 491-7294
Group: English Department
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
A Reading by Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and three collections of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles, which will be published by Riverhead Books on May 14, 2009. Born in Sarajevo, Hemon visited Chicago in 1992, intending to stay for a matter of months. While he was there, Sarajevo came under siege, and he was unable to return home. Hemon wrote his first story in English in 1995. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 2004. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter.
When:
Thursday, May 11, 2017
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CT
Where: Hinman Auditorium, 1710 Orrington Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Contact:
Jennifer Britton
(847) 491-7294
Group: English Department
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
A Reading by John Keene
John R. Keene was born in St. Louis in 1965. He graduated from the St. Louis Priory School, Harvard College, and New York University, where he was a New York Times Fellow. In 1989, Mr. Keene joined the Dark Room Writers Collective, and is a Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops. He is the author of Annotations, and Counternarratives, both published by New Directions, as well as several other works, including the poetry collection Seismosis, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, and a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst's novel Letters from a Seducer. He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark. A member of the Dark Room Collective, Keene received an award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and fellowships from Cave Canem, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the New York Times Foundation, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Pan-African Literary Forum. He has taught at Northwestern University and Rutgers University and served as the managing editor of Callaloo. He divides his time between Chicago and New Jersey.