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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: 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 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: 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: 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 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.