Geraldine Lyon Owen Lecture Series
Forums on Writing and Teaching
"Bringing to the campus excellent teachers"
--Geraldine Lyon Owen '27
9/15/11 Kevin McFadden and Angie Hogan
Reading at 6 p.m. in the Alumni House
Poetry, administration, and academic publishing
Kevin McFadden is the author of Hardscrabble, which received the George Garrett Award for poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Great Lakes College Association's New Writers Award. His poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Fence, Kenyon Review, Parnassus, Ploughshares, Poetry, and in other publications. He is the chief operating officer at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
Angie's poems have been published widely in journals such as The Antioch Review, Bellingham Review, Ploughshares, Third Coast, The Threepenny Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Past honors include a Henry Hoyns Fellowship, a Jakob K. Javits Fellowship, and an Academy of American Poets Prize. She works in the acquisitions department at the University of Virginia Press.
10/6/11 Daniel Anderson
Rhetoric/Composition, digital technology in composition
Daniel Anderson is director of the Studio for Instructional Technology and English Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. His work includes publications on teaching and studying writing and literature, and award-winning software for writing instruction.
11/17/11 Samantha Thornhill
Performance poetry
Samantha Thornhill teaches poetry to actors in training at Julliard and is Writer in Residence at the Bronx Academy of Letters. She is also very involved in community work in New York, especially with young people. For more information, please visit her website.
2/20/12 James Mardock
Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies
James Mardock is associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, assistant general editor for the Internet Shakespeare Editions, and the dramaturge for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. He has published on Shakespeare and Dickens, Jonson and transvestism, John Taylor and religion, and King James I and plague; he is currently at work on an edition of Henry V and a study of Calvin's influence on early modern drama.
3/19/12 Mark Roberts
Hybrid scholarship - creative and critical writing as mutually informing endeavors
Mark Roberts is provost at Virginia Intermont College. He began there as director of the Writing Center. He is a poet, and a writer and scholar of Appalachian culture and Southern literature.
