Acclaimed author and travel writer Pico Iyer returns to Chapman University Wednesday, April 10, to give a free lecture titled Global Souls: New Selves, Homes and Dreams in the New Millennium. In the new century, many people have multiple places they call home, several lives and even different versions of themselves. The result has been
The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing Literary Forum continues on Monday, April 1 , 2013 with author Andrew Lam. 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 public. About Andrew Lam: Lam is a
Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of English are honoring E nglish Professor Alicia Kozameh on Thursday, April 4, 2013 in an all day event starting at 9:30 a.m. in the Doy and Dee Henley Reading Room, Second Floor, Leatherby Libraries. The event, Ethics, Aesthetics, and Acrobatics of the Written
Professor Morgan Read-Davidson of the English department recently attended the North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing where he presented his paper “A Virtual Engagement: Shifting Student Writing into Digital Public Spaces,” and spoke on the panel “Beyond These Walls: Digital Media and Composition.” His paper focuses on the rhetorical and pedagogical benefits of moving
The godfather of steampunk is back. And in a big way – 400 pages to be exact. Associate Professor James Blaylock, author of numerous short stories and novels that are hallmarks of the whimsical science fiction subgenre characterized by steam-powered machines and Victorian settings, has just published his first full-length steampunk novel in more
English Professor Alicia Kozameh is featured in the March 7, 2013 issue of OC Weekly in an article titled, Alicia Kozameh: The Hypnotic Novelist. In the article, Kozameh discusses her time as a political prisoner (three years) during the last military dictatorship in country, her published books and gets a little personal, discussing her family.
The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing Literary Forum continues on Monday, March 11 , 2013 with author Zulfikar Ghose. Zulfikar A. Ghose is a novelist, poet and essayist. A native of Pakistan who has long lived in Texas, he writes in the surrealist mode of much Latin American fiction, blending fantasy and harsh
Congratulations are in order for Professor of Art, Wendy Salmond and Associate Professor of English, Kevin O’Brien . They been awarded a 2013-2014 Co-Teaching Competition Award for their course The Russian Avant-Garde: Art, Film and Literature by the Chancellor and the Faculty Research and Development Council members. Professors Salmond and O’Brien are
The Chapman University chapter of the international English honor society Sigma Tau Delta has been honored with one of the organization’s top awards. Chapman’s Alpha Zeta Iota chapter has been named an Outstanding Chapter by Sigma Tau Delta, just one of four student chapters from among a national membership of 700 to receive the honor
Chapman’s theatre department will be presenting Shakespeare’s *Twelfth Night* in the Waltmar Theater on February 14-16 and 21-22 at 7:30 p.m. and again February 23 at 2 p.m. There will be a symposium on the play from 6 pm. – 7 p.m on February 21 developed primarily for students, that will include the perspectives