Department of English

Thursday, October 6th

1. MFA Reading Series
   • Where: New Dominion Bookshop 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, United States
   • Start time: 07:00pm
   • End time: 08:00pm

   • Tanner Hansen & Cy March

Friday, October 7th

1. Alex Buckley Dissertation Presentation
   • Where: TBD
   • Start time: 12:00pm
   • End time: 01:00pm

Thursday, October 13th

1. Chiyuma Elliott Poetry Reading
   • Where: Minor Hall, Room 125
   • Start time: 05:00pm
   • End time: 06:00pm

   • Chiyuma Elliott reads from her poetry as part of her time at the University of Virginia as a 2022 Rea Visiting Writer in Poetry.

     Elliott is an associate professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarly work and teaching focus on poetry and poetics and African American intellectual history from the 1920s to the present.

     Elliott has published four books of poetry: Blue in Green (2021), At Most (2020), Vigil (2017), and California Winter League (2015). Her creative work has appeared in African American Review, Callaloo, The Collagist, Notre Dame Review, PN Review, and other journals. She is currently at work on a poem cycle called Hemland, and a scholarly monograph about rural life in the Harlem Renaissance.

2. MFA Reading Series
   • Where: New Dominion Bookshop 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, United States
   • Start time: 07:00pm
   • End time: 08:00pm

   • Sophia Zaklikowski & Kaitlyn Airy

Thursday, October 20th

1. MFA Reading Series
   • Where: New Dominion Bookshop 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, United States
   • Start time: 07:00pm
   • End time: 08:00pm

   • Laura McGehee & Ethan Evans

Friday, October 21st

1. Anna Beecher with Lauren K. Alleyne and Mark Prins
   • Where: New Dominion Bookshop 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, United States
   • Start time: 07:00pm
   • End time: 08:00pm