Creative Writing Professor Marcus Wicker Presents Dear Mothership: Poems at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute - January 31st, 2024
"Marcus Wicker is a poet from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Silencer (Mariner Books, 2017)—winner of the Midland Authors Award and the Arnold Adoff Award for New Voices—and Maybe the Saddest Thing (Harper Perennial, 2012), selected by D. A. Powell for the National Poetry Series. Wicker’s work addresses the diverse experiences of Black Americans using hip hop, jazz, and the subversion of traditional poetic forms. At Radcliffe, Wicker is completing Dear Mothership, a book of poetry that uses speculative narrative, empathy, and a hip hop aesthetic to explore reparations and examine the confounding ways humans treat one another when empowered by history and inheritance."
Naseeb Shaheen Memorial Lecture Series - April 10th & 12th
The Thirteenth Annual Naseeb Shaheen Memorial Lecture welcomes Dr. Marjorie Garber from Harvard University this April! For more information about the Lecture Series, visit this webpage.
April 10 - After "After the Humanities"; a conversation with graduate students from English, History, and Philosophy. 12-1:30pm, Patterson Hall 221.
April 12 - Marjorie Garber's Keynote for the ACTC Conference, Displacement. 12pm at the Downtown Sheraton.
English Honors Colloquium - April 15th
Faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduate majors and minors, and anyone interested in English Studies are invited to gather in fellowship to hear about and discuss the cutting-edge work being done by our faculty!
March 18 - Dr. Carey Mickalites: "Emma Donoghue's Hunger Aesthetic: Famine Memory and Colonial Politics in The Wonder"
April 15 - Dr. Kathy Lou Schultz: "“An Epistemology of Self-Knowing: Suzanne Césaire, André Breton, and Caribbean Surrealism”
This event is sponsored by the English Honors Program.
Compose Yourself 2.0: Digital Literacy Workshop Series - March 13th-May 1st
The Writing, Rhetoric, & Technical Communication concentration has teamed up with the Memphis Public Libraries and the Memphis Library Foundation to present an 8-week workshop series on digital literacy and citizenship to the Memphis community! Topics include mis/disinformation on social media, online communication etiquette and taking care of yourself online, AI literacy, the online job market, and more! Each session has its own registration link (which can be found here) and is hosted by a UofM English Department or Communications Department graduate student. For more information, visit the Memphis Public Library's website.
The Pinch Issue 44.1 Release Party - March 29th
Join us on March 29th beginning at 6pm at the Crosstown Concourse Glass Room to celebrate the launch of The Pinch issue 44.1!
More info about The Pinch Journal can be found on our MFA webpage and The Pinch's website and Instagram!
The Thirteenth Annual Naseeb Shaheen Memorial Lecture - April 12th
Spring 2024 Lecture Series
Margery Garber // Harvard University
Displacement
2024 Talbot Roundtable: Indigenous Language Reclamation - April 12th
Friday, April 12, 2024 | 5pm | UC Bluff Room (304)
Keynote Speakers
Kendall King | University of Minnesota
"Engaging with Indigenous language reclamation is essential for language scholars:
Why and how"
Joshua (Lokosh) Hinson | Executive Director of Language Preservation, Chickasaw Nation
"Nanna ittonchololi' ilaliichi (We are cultivating new growth): Twenty-five years
in Chikashshanompa' Revitalization"