Category: Publications

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, Sex, Love in Poetic Dialogues of the Early Twentieth Century) puts actual poetic dialogues—poems exchanged between lovers […]

Karen Joy Fowler Wins PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize

Karen Joy Fowler / photo by Brett Hall Jones
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 the 2014 winner of the PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize.
Fowler’s […]

Ms. Fembot Edit-a-Thon + Hack-a-Thon

[ March 6, 2015; ]

Fembot is a CSWS Special Project.

Join Us! For the Ms. Fembot Edit-a-Thon + Hack-a-Thon
Friday, March 6, 2015 and Saturday, March 7, 2015

Sign up for the edit-a-thon online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ms._Fembot_Edit-a-Thon

 

Writers, researchers, coders, students: have you ever gone to Wikipedia looking for information about women, trans, and/or gender non-conforming scientists, writers, scholars, filmmakers, artists, activists, politicians, and others, […]

Mary E. Wood, “Life Writing and Schizophrenia: Encounters at the Edge of Meaning”

[ March 3, 2015; 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ] Humanities Center Conference Rm (159 PLC)
1415 Kincaid St.
Oregon Humanities Center: Faculty Author Series
Mary E. Wood, UO Department of English, will discuss her book Life Writing and Schizophrenia: Encounters at the Edge of Meaning on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. at 3:30 p.m. in the Humanities Center Conference Room. Professor Wood is a member of the CSWS […]

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
Columbia 150
Free and open to public.
Sponsored by the Department of English and the Collins Fund. www.uoregon.edu/~engl.  The University of Oregon is an equal opportunity, armative action institution committed to […]

Reading and book signing with acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré

[ February 20, 2015; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] 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. A major figure in contemporary Quebec literature, Dupré is the author of Plus haut que les flammes, a […]