Please join us for a conversation with Professor Bryant Simon (History & American Studies, Temple University) about Writing, Creativity & Historical Imagination on Friday, October 19, from 2:30-4:00 in the UCHI seminar room. The workshop is aimed at all graduate students and faculty interested in the creative practice of writing for academic and popular audiences. Professor Simon will share aspects of his own experience as a writer and scholar, including past experiments with short historical fiction and insights from writing his most recent book, The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives (New Press, 2017). A selection of pre-circulated short readings will provide common foundation for a free-ranging interdisciplinary discussion. Among his many diverse publications, Bryant Simon is also author of Everything But the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks (California, 2009); Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America (OUP, 2004); and A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948 (UNC, 1998).

For copies of the readings, please email Micki McElya at micki.mcelya@uconn.edu.

Many thanks to workshop co-sponsors: the American Studies Program, Department of History, and the Humanities Institute!

Please join us for a conversation with Professor Bryant Simon (History & American Studies, Temple University) about Writing, Creativity & Historical Imagination on Friday, October 19, from 2:30-4:00 in the UCHI seminar room. The workshop is aimed at all graduate students and faculty interested in the creative practice of writing for academic and popular audiences. Professor Simon will share aspects of his own experience as a writer and scholar, including past experiments with short historical fiction and insights from writing his most recent book, The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives (New Press, 2017). A selection of pre-circulated short readings will provide common foundation for a free-ranging interdisciplinary discussion. Among his many diverse publications, Bryant Simon is also author of Everything But the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks (California, 2009); Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America (OUP, 2004); and A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948 (UNC, 1998).

The UConn Medieval Studies program invites you to our first event of the 2018-2019 visiting speaker series. We are proud to welcome Dr. Nahir Otaño-Gracia to present her talk "Towards a Decentered Global North Atlantic" this Friday, Oct. 19, at 4:30 pm in the Stern lounge. Dr. Otaño-Gracia's research on the medieval North Sea challenges traditional academic boundaries of field based on period, region, and language, and thus has much to offer all members of our community.

Paul Kix is a deputy editor at ESPN the Magazine. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, GQ, New York, Men's Journal and Wall Street Journal.

For more information about this event, please contact dana.miranda@uconn.edu

Teacher-as-Writer workshop. Please send RSVPs to dpieratti@swindsor.k12.ct.us.

More information on the workshop can be found on the CWP website.

Oct. 22, 7pm. “Frankenstein at 200.” Public talk at Manchester Public Library.

Wednesday, October 24 -- Dennis Barone, Professor of English at the University of Saint Joseph, and James Finnegan, President of the Hartford Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens, will read from their anthology, Visiting Wallace: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Wallace Stevens.
Visiting Wallace collects an astonishing variety of poems inspired by Stevens, including poems by such well known figures as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg and Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery and Susan Howe.
3:00 p.m. at the UConn Barnes and Noble Bookstore (on Front Street).