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Department of English > On the Run Lecture Series - 2006-07

 

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Nambi E. Kelley
4-5:30 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

imageDebra Di Blasi
Prose reading
March 29 7:00 pm
Meyer Auditorium

Debra Di Blasi (www.debradiblasi.com) received the 2003 James C. McCormick Fellowship from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. Books include The Jiri Chronicles & Other Fictions (FC2 Books, 2007), Prayers of an Accidental Nature (Coffee House Press), and Drought & Say What You Like (New Directions), winner of the 1998 Thorpe Menn Award. She has taught experimental writing at Kansas City Art Institute and is now president of Jaded Ibis Productions, Inc, a transmedia corporation.

 

 

 

imageThursday, April 12th, 2007
Alpana Singh
Lecture and Book Signing: Alpana Pours: About Being a Woman, Loving Wine, & Having Great Relationships
7:30 pm—Lily Reid Hold Memorial Chapel

At age 19, Monterey, California raised Alpana Singh didn't know a thing about wine. Seven years later, at 26, this daughter of Indian immigrants was inducted into the world's most exclusive sommelier organization, the Court of Master Sommeliers. Of the 121 court members, at the time of her induction they were typically 40 (or older) and male. Alpana's professional accolades include Bon Appetit Magazine's 2006 Wine & Spirits Professional of the Year, Best Sommelier in America Wine and Spirits Magazine, Crain's 40 Under 40, Food & Wine's 35 Under 35, Best Sommelier Chicago Magazine 2004, Jane Magazine's 30 Under 30 for 2006 and a 2002 James Beard Foundation Nomination for Wine Services. Alpana led the Chicago PBS Television (WTTW Channel 11) hit series “Check Please!” (in its 6th season), to both its second Emmy Award in 2005 and the distinction of being the #1 rated local public television program. After 5 years as a sommelier for Chicago's world-famous Everest restaurant, in Fall '05 Alpana accepted legendary restaurateur Rich Melman's invitation to become the Director of Wine and Spirits for the Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises many restaurants. Alpana is also active in charitable causes including Chicago Children¹s Memorial Hospital's Children with AIDS Clinic and the Chicago Lighthouse.

 

 

imageMonday, April 16, 2007
Ana Shua
4 pm, Meyer Auditorium

Ana María Shua has earned a prominent place in contemporary Argentine fiction with the publication of over forty books in nearly every genre: novels, short stories, short short stories, poetry, theater, children's fiction, books of humor and Jewish folklore, anthologies, film scripts, journalistic articles, and essays. Her award-winning works have been translated to many languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Bulgarian, and Serbian, and her stories appear in anthologies throughout the world. Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Shua began her literary career at the young age of sixteen with the publication of El sol y yo (The Sun and I), a volume of poetry which received two literary prizes in 1967. She went on to study at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and worked as an advertising copywriter and journalist during the early stages of her career. Since then, she has received numerous national and international awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel El libro de los recuerdos (The Book of Memories, 1994). Her other novels include Soy Paciente (Patient, 1980), Los amores de Laurita (Laurita's Loves,1984), which was made into a movie, and La muerte como efecto secundario (Death as a Side Effect, 1997).