Category: Literature

UO professor to open international literary conference | Around the O

December 7, 2015—“Barbara Mossberg, a humanities professor in the Clark Honors College, has been chosen to contribute to the 2015 Abroad Writers’ Conference this month in Dublin, Ireland — which was honored as UNESCO’s fourth ‘City of Literature’ in 2010. “The annual…

Reading with Lauren Kessler: Raising the Barre

Global Scholars Great Hall 1710 E. 15th Ave. UO campus The UO Bookstore presents a reading, signing and reception with Lauren Kessler, featuring her latest book, Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts and My Midlife Quest to Dance the…

Tiptree Symposium | UO Libraries

  Lillis Auditorium Room 182 please RSVP here Source: Tiptree Symposium | UO Libraries The University of Oregon Libraries will celebrate the acquisition of the James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon) literary papers with a two-day symposium on December 4-5,…

LANDLINES: A public performance by poet Ana-Maurine Lara

Eugene, OR—On Saturday August 22 and Sunday August 23, 2015, Ana-Maurine Lara, winner of the Oregon Arts Commission Joan Shipley Award, will perform LANDLINES, a public event exploring the ideas home and homeland in Eugene. The Sephardic Jewish notion of…

Former Jane Grant winner publishes anthology on Irish Women Dramatists

In the mid-1980s, CSWS awarded Eileen Kearney the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship to help with her doctoral work and research on the 1930s Irish playwright, Teresa Deevy. She received her doctorate in theatre arts in 1986 and has subsequently taught theatre…

2015 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship Open to Applicants

Deadline: 5 p.m. Le Guin Fellowship printable flyer The deadline for the 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship has been extended to 5 pm, Thursday, October 1, 2015. Applications and questions should be sent to csws@uoregon.edu.  The 2015-16 Le…