F LLA 2 310Literary Calendar

Christine MarshallCynthia Lewis, Davidson’s Charles A. Dana Professor of English, writes reported creative nonfiction and personal narrative. She focuses on American subcultures—women bodybuilders, professional gamblers, Southern debutantes—and on crime and criminal behavior. Her essays have been recognized in various competitions and by the editor of The Best American Essays series.

Christine Marshall’s poems have appeared in many journals, including Best American Poetry, Agni, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod and Western Humanities Review. She teaches literature and creative writing at Davidson.

‘You would have been contracted to a maid’: Reflections on the History of Staging Gender, Sex and Genre in Twelfth Night

James SchifferJames Schiffer is professor of English and former dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at New Paltz. In addition to publishing essays on various poems and plays by Shakespeare, he has edited collections of essays on Shakespeare’s sonnets and Twelfth Night. He is currently editor of the New Variorum Edition of Twelfth Night. Schiffer has also written a monograph on contemporary author Richard Stern and co-authored the academic mystery novel Foul Deeds.

Thursday, Oct. 24 • 11:05 a.m. • Lilly Family Gallery, Chambers Building

Does Love Work?: Ask a Poet

Al YoungWidely translated, former McGee Professor Al Young’s many books include poetry, fiction, essays, anthologies and musical memoirs. From 2005 through 2008 he served as California’s poet laureate. Other honors include NEA, Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, The Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence and, most recently, the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Award. Young currently teaches at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. He has just completed Offline Love, a new poetry collection.

Wednesday, Oct. 9 • 7:30 p.m. • C. Shaw Smith 900 Room, Alvarez College Union

Bobbie Ann MasonBobbie Ann Mason received the Ernest Hemingway Award for her first book of fiction, Shiloh and Other Stories. Other works include In Country, Spence + Lila, Feather Crowns, Clear Springs, Elvis Presley, Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail, An Atomic Romance and Nancy Culpepper. Her new novel, The Girl in the Blue Beret, was published in 2011. She is former Writer-in-Residence at the University of Kentucky.

Thursday, Oct. 24 • 7:30 p.m. • C. Shaw Smith 900 Room, Alvarez College Union

Pat Mora

Since the publications of her first poetry collection, Chants, and children’s book, A Birthday Basket for Tia, Pat Mora has gained a stellar reputation as a children’s author, poet, educator and advocate for bilingual literacy. Her honors include the AWP Con Tinta Achievement for Literary Activism, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship and honorary doctorates from N.C. State and SUNY Buffalo. Among her recent works are Adobe Odes (poetry), House of Houses (memoir), Abuelos, Tomas and the Library Lady (children’s book), as well as the forthcoming I Pledge Allegiance.

Tuesday, Oct. 29 • 7:30 p.m. • Lilly Family Gallery, Chambers Building

2013-14 Reynolds Lecture

David Henry HwangPlaywright, librettist and screenwriter David Henry Hwang received the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, John Gassner Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for his play M. Butterfly. Other works include Golden Child, Yellow Face, FOB, The Dance & the Railroad, Family Devotions, the book for Disney’s Aida and a new book for Rogers & Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song. His most recent play, Chinglish, a hit comedy about an American businessman in China, premiered at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre before moving to Broadway, where it received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding New Play.

Monday, Nov. 4 • 7:30 p.m. • Duke Family Performance Hall, Knobloch Campus CenterTickets are free, but required.

Our Stories, Our Selves: Ethical Communication in Medicine

Margaret Edson Margaret Edson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999 for her play Wit; an HBO film version starring Emma Thompson won an Emmy in 2001. Edson grew up in Washington, D.C., graduated from Sidwell Friends School, earned a bachelor’s degree at Smith College and a master’s at Georgetown University. She works as a middle-school teacher in Atlanta. With her Pulitzer Prize award money, Edson created a foundation focusing on cultivating medical students’ humane instincts.

Friday, Nov. 22 • 7 p.m. • C. Shaw Smith 900 Room, Alvarez College Union

For additional information about literary calendar events, contact Nancy Randazzo at narandazzo@davidson.edu or 704-894-2472.

16th Annual Davidson ReadsMonday, Sept. 9 • 8 p.m. • C. Shaw Smith 900 Room, Alvarez College Union

Cynthia Lewis