Andrew Davies, writer of the popular television miniseries “Pride and Prejudice,” discusses how he became involved with the series. Through anecdotes, he shares behind-the-scenes information about the show during a visit to Chapman University in Orange, CA. While he was in Southern California, Mr. Davies addressed the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Southwest Meeting.
The Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of English at Chapman University honored English Professor Alicia Kozameh, with presentations and discussions with Professor Kozameh’s friends, family, colleagues, and students on April 4, 2013. Alicia Kozameh, Argentine author and former political prisoner during the last military dictatorship in her country, is the author of the
School Literacies Partnership program includes a series of Young Writers Workshops with the John Folwes Center for Creative Writing. The culmination of the Young Writers Workshops 2013 is the student reading. Orange High School students who participated in the 2013 Creative Writing Workshop present their work in this video.
Chapman University’s English/Creative Writing Department’s MFA/MA candidates read their creative works. Chapman offers an MA, MFA and dual MA/MFA. The dual degree combines the M.F.A. in Creative Writing and the M.A. in English and combines the practice and study of creative writing with literary scholarship. It is designed for students who intend to pursue a
When the world’s Jane Austen experts gather this summer at England’s most prestigious conference celebrating all things Austen upon the 200th anniversary of her landmark novel Pride and Prejudice, among them will be Chapman University alumna Sarah Faulkner ’12. Faulkner, a master’s candidate at the University of Edinburgh, will present an essay she wrote in
The Jane Austen Society of North America is hosting the 2013 Spring Meeting at Chapman University on Friday, April 26-27, 2013 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice with an examination of this most “light, bright and sparkling” of Jane Austen’s novels on film. The program will begin on
Leatherby Libraries and the Women’s Studies Minor Program of Wilkinson College continue the Bluestockings: Women’s studies Book Club series on Friday, April 26, 2013 at 1 p.m. in the Leatherby Libraries room 305. The discussion will be, Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen In this ebullient and inventive novel, Gish Jen
The English Department would like you to join them on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 as an array of writers of short fiction, poetry, novels, creative non-fiction and feature articles, offer advice, war stories, and a glimpse into what it takes to interest publishers of all varieties in your work. Speakers include Nancy Holder, Tony
The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing Literary Forum continues on Monday, April 22, 2013 with author David Matlin. This will be the last event of the series. The reading will begin at 7 p.m. in the Henley Reading Room in the Leatherby Libraries. Admission is free and this event is open to the
Doug Sweet, Director of Undergraduate Writing, delivered a paper entitled “The Mediate Social Ideology of Convenience and Efficiency” at a recent conference. The conference was “Countering Contingency: Teaching, Scholarship, and Creativity in the Age of the Adjunct,” held at the United Steelworker’s International Headquarters in Pittsburgh, April 5-7. Communication Studies Associate Professor Jennifer Waldeck’s study,