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    The Second Amendment: Myths and Realities
    (Honors Symposium, The University of Tampa, 2018-11-30) Cornell, Saul
    On Friday, Nov. 30, The University of Tampa welcomed Saul Cornell, a leading authority on early American constitutional thought and the Second Amendment, as part of the University’s Honors Program symposia series. The presentation, titled The Second Amendment: Myths and Realities, begins at 8 p.m. in the Trustees Board Room on the ninth floor of the Vaughn Center and is free and open to the public. Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University, and the former director of the Second Amendment Research Center at the John Glenn Institute. He is the author of The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, which won the 2001 Cox Book Prize, and A Well-Regulated Militia: the Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America. He recently authored an article on Salon about the 2011 Tucson shooting and gun control, as well as an opinion piece for the New York Daily News entitled, “Have guns at home? You should have to tell your child’s school.” Cornell’s work has been widely cited by legal scholars, historians, the U.S. Supreme Court and several state supreme courts.
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    LONG PLAYERS: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs
    (Scholars' Symposia, The University of Tampa, 2018-11-02) Coviello, Peter
    Have 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.
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    2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Kazim Ali
    (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-06-14) Ali, Kazim
    This 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.
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    2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Juliana Gray and Stefan Kiesby
    (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-06-19) Gray, Juliana; Kiesby, Stefan
    This 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.
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    2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Sonya Huber
    (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-06-15) Huber, Sonya
    This 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.
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    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.
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    2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker
    (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-01-11) Iossel, Mikhail; Parker, Jeff
    This 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.
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    2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Skip Horack
    (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-01-08) Horack, Skip
    This 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.
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    Home with Hip Hop Feminism
    (Scholar's Symposium, The University of Tampa, 2018-04-20) Durham, Aisha
    Dr. 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.
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    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, Risa
    Dr. Risa Lieberwitz, Professor of Labor and Employment Law at Cornell University and general counsel of AAUP, speaks on academic freedom.
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    Austin Reed's The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
    (Scholar's Symposium, The University of Tampa, 2018-02-16) Smith, Caleb
    This 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.
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