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Department of English > On the Run Lecture Series - 2005
On the Run Lecture Series: The English Department's creative, critical, and always adventurous visiting speaker series.
All events are open to the public and free of charge.
Lake Forest College is located in Lake Forest, Illinois, near the intersection of College and Sheridan Road and is accessible by METRA. For more information please call 847-735-6010.
Tuesday, September 27
Stephen Burt
A poetry reading.
7:00 p.m.
Carnegie Hall, room 300. Carnegie Hall is located next to the Johnson Science Building on the College's Middle Campus.
Free and open to the public.
Stephen Burt grew up in and around Washington, D.C. attended Harvard and Oxford, and receive his Ph. D. from Yale. His books include the critical study Randall Jarrell and His Age, and the book of poetry Popular Music. Another book of poetry, Parallel Play, will be published in 2006.
Stephen Burt frequently writes for publications such as The New York Times Book Review and The Times Literary Supplement. Burt also writes about rock music, comics, and genre fiction on occasion, or when asked.
Check out his blog at http://www.accommodatingly.com/
Thursday, September 29
Ray Federman
A fiction reading by Raymond Federman from his newly-translated novel My Body in Nine Parts.
8:00-9:00 p.m.
Meyer Auditorium, located in Hotchkiss Hall on the College's Middle Campus.
Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the English Department, American Studies Department, and the Learning and Teaching Center.
Born in France in 1928, Raymond Federman emigrated to the US in 1947, following the deaths of his mother, father, and two sisters at Auschwitz. His early experiences in the U.S. included time as an American paratrooper in Korea, a saxophone player in Detroit, a dishwasher, and student. Federman taught literature, creative writing, and French at SUNY at Buffalo from 1964-1998, before retiring as the Melodia E. Jones Chair of French. His is the author of over 20 books of fiction, poetry, and criticism, translated into German, Italian, French, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Rumanian, Hebrew, Dutch, Greek, Japanese, and Chinese. Federman is also the recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Foundation for the Arts fellowships, as well as numerous foreign awards.
Thursday, October 20
Cross Genres: 3 Artists
A literary and artistic multi-media fiction presentation by writer Lance Olsen, artist Andi Olsen, and Tim Guthrie.
Andi Olsen will show her video "When the Smiling Ends"--capturing expressions just after people pose for photographs; Lance Olsen and Tim Guthrie will perform their multimedia adaptation of Lance Olsen's novel 10:01.
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Meyer Auditorium, located in Hotchkiss Hall on the College's Middle Campus.
Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the English Department, American Studies Department, the Art Department, and the Learning and Teaching Center.
Lance Olsen is author of seven novels, one hypertext, four critical studies, four short-story collections, a poetry chapbook, and a textbook about fiction writing, as well as editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction. His short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of journals and anthologies, including Fiction International, Iowa Review, Village Voice, Time Out, BOMB, Gulf Coast, and Best American Non-Required Reading. A Pushcart Prize recipient and former Idaho Writer-in-Residence, his work has been translated into Italian, Polish, and Finnish. His novel Tonguing the Zeitgeist was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. For ten years he taught as associate and then full professor at the University of Idaho. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two; founded in 1974, FC2 is one of America's best-known ongoing literary experiments and progressive art communities.
Andi Olsen received a B.A. and an M.A. in art history from the University of Virginia. She has taught at the University of Idaho, the University of Kentucky, Kentucky State University, Lexington Community College, the University of Virginia, and on summer and semester-abroad programs in Oxford and London. Currently she is exploring the notion of monstrosity in her ongoing assemblage, video/DVD, collage-text installation Hideous Beauties: A Freak Show. Her art has been exhibited and published around the country and abroad. She has collaborated with her writer-husband Lance Olsen on computer-generated collage-texts, as well as on a video tribute to Kathy Acker.
Tim Guthrie is an Associate Professor at Creighton University in
Omaha. He is a visual artist who works in many different media from
traditional (oils, encaustics, graphite, sculpture and assemblage,
etc) to digital (both 2D and 3D, including animation and video). His
work is in collections throughout the country and he has had solo
shows at many museums and numerous galleries. He has been awarded
full fellowship artist residencies (Vermont Studio Center, Hall Farm),
artist fellowships and grants (Nevada Arts Council, Sierra Arts, both
with the National Endowment of the Arts), and his work has also
received many top awards in exhibitions, including purchase awards at the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art.
Thursday, November 17
Cris Mazza
A reading from her recent novel Disability.
Disability probes deeply into the world of the severely disabled. Teri and Cleo are minimum-wage caretakers in a ward for severely disabled children; to keep the money flowing, the caretakers must “see” and chart significant improvements. As their personal failures begin to emulate the travesties occurring in the ward, Teri and Cleo gradually succumb to the collapse of their own balancing act.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Meyer Auditorium, located in Hotchkiss Hall on the College's Middle Campus.
Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the English Department, American Studies Department, and the Learning and Teaching Center.
Cris Mazza's first novel, How to Leave a Country, while still in manuscript won the PEN / Nelson Algren Award for book-length fiction. The judges included Studs Terkel and Grace Paley.
Mazza is the author of 13 books of fiction. Some of her other notable titles include Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?, How to Leave a Country, and Your Name Here :____.
A native of Southern California, Mazza now lives west of Chicago and is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.