Category: Books

Karma R. Chávez Interview Featured in Fembot’s “Books Aren’t Dead”

Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for April 2014 is now available on the Fembot website. In this BAD interview Magie Ramírez (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington) talks with Karma R. Chávez (Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison), author of Queer…

Now in print: “Gender, Sex, Love in Poetic Dialogues of the Early Twentieth Century” by Dorothee Ostmeier

A CSWS-supported book project by Dorothee Ostmeier, University of Oregon professor of German and Folklore, is now in print. Here is a short summary of its content: The book “Gender, Sex, Liebe in poetischen Dialogen des frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts” (Gender,…

Karen Joy Fowler Wins PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize

Karen Joy Fowler Wins PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize – NYTimes.com. April 2, 2014—Best work of fiction by an American in the past year! Congratulations to author Karen Joy Fowler, who will headline this year’s CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium. Fowler is…

Asian American Voices: A Collins Literary Forum

Gish Jen April 21 – 8:00pm Public Reading Knight Browsing Room Maxine Hong Kingston May 5 – 8:00pm Public Reading Columbia 150 Bill Cheng May 12 – 8:00pm Public Reading Knight Browsing Room Chang-Rae Lee May 15 – 8:00pm Public…

Reading and book signing with acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré

Museum of Natural and Cultural History 1680 E 15th Ave. Eugene, OR The UO Department of Romance Languages and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History invite you to a reading and book signing by acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré.…