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Item 2016 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Mikhail Iossel & Vanessa Blakeslee(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2016-01-12) Iossel, Mikhail; Blakeslee, VanessaThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Jessica Anthony and Erica Dawson.Item 2016 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Stefan Kiesbye and Joe Oestreich(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2016-01-13) Kiesbye, Stefan; Oestreich, JoeThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Jason Ockert and Alan Michael Parker.Item 2016 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Annie Liontas(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2016-01-18) Liontas, AnnieThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Jeff Parker. Annie Liontas' debut novel, Let Me Explain You, was featured in The New York Times Book Review as Editor's Choice and was selected by the American Booksellers Association as a 2015 Indies Introduce Debut and Indies Next Title. She is the co-editor of the anthology, A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors, and the recipient of a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.Item A Hell of Our Own — Pirates, Sailors and Coastal Identities in Early America(Honors Symposium, The University of Tampa, 2017-01-27) Walden, DanDan Walden, an associate professor of English at Baylor University, presents “A Hell of Our Own — Pirates, Sailors and Coastal Identities in Early America.” This event is part of The University of Tampa Honors Program symposia series.Item 2017 MFA Residency Readings: John Capouya(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-17) Capouya, JohnThis seminar is a part of the MFA in Creative Writing residency. John Capouya specializes in teaching journalism and other forms of nonfiction writing at The University of Tampa. He was a working journalist in New York City for many years, including stints at Newsweek and SmartMoney magazines, and the newspapers New York Newsday and The New York Times. His most recent book is Florida Soul, a history of rhythm and blues music in the Sunshine State, published by the University Press of Florida.Item 2017 MFA Residency Readings: Tommy Pico(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-18) Pico, TommyThis seminar is a part of the MFA in Creative Writing residency with an introduction by MFA Director Erica Dawson. Tommy “Teebs” Pico is author of IRL (Birds, LLC, 2016), Nature Poem (Tin House Books, 2017), Junk (forthcoming 2018 from Tin House Books), the zine series Hey, Teebs and the chapbook app absentMINDR (VerbalVisual 2014). He was the founder and editor in chief of birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and zine that published art and writing from 2008-2013. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn where he co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub.Item 2017 MFA Residency Readings: Donald Morrill(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-20) Morrill, DonaldThis seminar is a part of the MFA in Creative Writing residency. Donald Morrill is the Associate Dean, Graduate and Continuing Studies and Dana Professor of English at The University of Tampa. He is the author of four books of nonfiction, Impetuous Sleeper , The Untouched Minutes (River Teeth Nonfiction Prize), Sounding for Cool (American Library Association/AAUP “Best of the Presses” Award) and A Stranger’s Neighborhood . He is also the author of three volumes of poetry, Awaiting Your Impossibilities, With Your Back to Half the Day and At the Bottom of the Sky.Item 2017 MFA Residency Readings: Jensen Beach(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-20) Beach, JensenThis seminar is a part of the MFA in Creative Writing residency, with an introduction by MFA Director Erica Dawson. Jensen Beach is the author of two story collections, most recently Swallowed by the Cold (Graywolf). He holds an MFA in fiction from the Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as an MA and BA in English from Stockholm University. He teaches in the BFA program at Johnson State College, where he is the fiction editor at Green Mountains Review. He’s also a faculty member in the MFA Program in Writing & Publishing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His writing has appeared recently in A Public Space, the Paris Review, and The New Yorker.Item 2017 MFA Residency Readings: Rahul Mehta(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-22) Mehta, RahulThis seminar is a part of the MFA in Creative Writing residency. Rahul Mehta is the author of a novel No Other World (Harper, 2017), and a short story collection, Quarantine (HarperPerennial, 2011), which won a Lambda Literary Award and the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction. His short stories have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Epoch, The Sun, Noon, and the prize anthology New Stories from the South. His essays have appeared on the op-ed page of theNew York Times and in the New York Times Magazine, theInternational Herald Tribune, and Marie Claire India. Named to Out magazine’s “Out 100” list of inspiring individuals for 2011, Mehta lives in Philadelphia and teaches creative writing at the University of the Arts.Item Empathy in the Age of Trump(Scholar's Symposium, The University of Tampa, 2017-09-22) Gaines, AlishaWe are in seemingly unprecedented times. Dr. Alisha Gaines, professor at Florida State and author of the recent book Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy, will detail how her unique, genealogical history of cross-racial experiments in empathy can teach us about allyship, intentionality, politics, and race--even today.Item 2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Skip Horack(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-01-08) Horack, SkipThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Kevin Moffett. Skip Horack is the author of the novel The Other Joseph (Ecco, 2015), as well as The Eden Hunter, which was a 2010 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and The Southern Cross, winner of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2008 Bakeless Fiction Prize. His work has appeared in Oxford American, Epoch, The Southern Review, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere. Horack is an associate professor at Florida State University.Item 2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-01-11) Iossel, Mikhail; Parker, JeffThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by MFA Director Dr. Erica Dawson and Stefan Kiesbye. ********** Mikhail Iossel, the founder and executive director of the Summer Literary Seminars International programs and professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal, is the author of Every Hunter Wants to Know, a collection of stories, and co-editor (with Jeff Parker) of the anthologies Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States and Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia. His stories have been published in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad, translated in several foreign languages. ********** Jeff Parker is the author of several books including Where Bears Roam the Streets: A Russian Journal, the novel Ovenman, and the short story collection The Taste of Penny (Dzanc). He co-edited the anthologies Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia and Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States. He is the cofounder of the DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon, and currently he’s on the faculty of the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was the founding director of the Low-Residency MFA at The University of Tampa.Item Austin Reed's The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict(Scholar's Symposium, The University of Tampa, 2018-02-16) Smith, CalebThis lecture by Dr. Caleb Smith, Professor of English and American studies at Yale University, introduces The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict (1858), the recently recovered memoir of an African American inmate at New York’s Auburn State Prison. It considers Reed’s account of indentured servitude, a juvenile reformatory and an industrial prison—scenes of captivity and unfree labor that he connected to slavery in the South. The lecture also touches on the discovery and authentication of Reed’s manuscript and the strange artistry of his writing.Item The Many Faces of Academic Freedom: Free Speech, Due Process, and Shared Governance(UT Workgroup on Free Speech and Academic Freedom, 2018-03-19) Lieberwitz, RisaDr. Risa Lieberwitz, Professor of Labor and Employment Law at Cornell University and general counsel of AAUP, speaks on academic freedom.Item Home with Hip Hop Feminism(Scholar's Symposium, The University of Tampa, 2018-04-20) Durham, AishaDr. Aisha Durham, associate professor of communication at the University of South Florida, presented “Home with Hip Hop Feminism” as part of the Department of English and Writing’s Scholars Symposia series.Item 2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Kazim Ali(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-06-14) Ali, KazimThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by MFA Director Dr. Erica Dawson. Poet, editor and prose writer Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom to Muslim parents of Indian, Iranian and Egyptian descent. He received a bachelor's and master's from the University of Albany-SUNY and an MFA from New York University. His books encompass several volumes of poetry, including Sky Ward, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre text Bright Felon. His novels include Quinn’s Passage and The Disappearance of Seth. Ali is an associate professor of creative writing and comparative literature at Oberlin College. His new book of poems, Inquisition, will be released in the Spring of 2018.Item 2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Sonya Huber(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-06-15) Huber, SonyaThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by MFA Director Dr. Erica Dawson and Dr. David Gudelunas, Dean of the College of Arts and Letters. Sonya Huber’s new essay collection is called Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Her other books include Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, The Evolution of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and The Backwards Research Guide for Writers. She teaches at Fairfield University and directs Fairfield’s Low-Residency MFA Program.Item 2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Tracy K. Smith(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-06-17) Smith, Tracy K.This reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by MFA Director Dr. Erica Dawson. In 2017, Tracy K. Smith was appointed the 22nd United States Poet Laureate. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light (Knopf, 2015) and three books of poetry. Her collection Life on Mars won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. Duende won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. The Body’s Question was the winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 professor in the humanities at Princeton University. Her most recent collection, Wade in the Water (2018), boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.Item 2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Juliana Gray and Stefan Kiesby(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-06-19) Gray, Juliana; Kiesby, StefanThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by MFA Director Dr. Erica Dawson and Associate Dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies Dr. Donald Morrill. Juliana Gray’s most recent poetry collection is Honeymoon Palsy (Measure Press 2017). She is also the author of Roleplay (Dream Horse Press 2012, winner of the Orphic Prize and the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize), and The Man Under My Skin (River City Publishing 2005), as well as the chapbook Anne Boleyn’s Sleeve (Winged City Chapbook Press 2013). Stefan Kiesbye's stories, essays and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly and in the Los Angeles Times. His first book, Next Door Lived a Girl, won the Low Fidelity Press Novella Award, and has been translated into German, Dutch and Spanish. Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone made EW’s Must List and was named one of the best books of 2012 by Slate editor Dan Kois.Item LONG PLAYERS: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs(Scholars' Symposia, The University of Tampa, 2018-11-02) Coviello, PeterHave you ever fallen in love - wracking, hilarious, hopeless love - with a pop song? Peter Coviello will read from LONG PLAYERS, his book about just that sort of swoony besotted love - which is ALSO about the other, more knotty, more entangling kinds of love that songs can lead us into.