Department of English

Thursday, October 28th

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

   • Hannah Dierdorff and Nana Nyarko Boateng

Friday, October 29th

1. Lydia Brown dissertation presentation
   • Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
   • Start time: 12:00pm
   • End time: 01:00pm

Tuesday, November 2nd

1. Thadious Davis, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English - Inaugural Ross Family Lecture, “Imploding History in Home: Toni Morrison’s Mid-century Modernism”
   • Where: Location TBD
   • Start time: 04:00pm
   • End time: 06:00pm

Thursday, November 4th

1. Lecture by Rabih Alameddine, "Concerning the Politics in Art"
   • Where: Newcomb Hall Ballroom
   • Start time: 05:00pm
   • End time: 07:00pm
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

   • Katherine James and Sophia Saklikowski

Saturday, November 6th

1. Lisa Russ Spaar Book Launch: Madrigailia
   • Where: New Dominion Bookshop 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, United States
   • Start time: 04:00pm
   • End time: 05:00pm

   • Join us as we celebrate the release of Lisa Russ Spaar’s new poetry collection, Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems. This in-person event will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating.

     About the Book: This career-spanning volume portrays in stunning fashion Lisa Russ Spaar’s exquisite obsessions: spiritual hunger, lingual pleasures, bodily decay. The “ringleader of a stunning lexicon” (Shenandoah), Spaar offers poems that are both colloquial and sumptuous, hyper-attuned to contemporary idiom while rooted in language’s primordial, earthy roots. Whether writing of the erotic or the divine, of anorexia or insomnia, of fairy tale or literary history, Spaar’s writing is unmistakably her own, a trove of music and magic like nothing else in contemporary poetry. In Madrigalia, her oeuvre is on full display; it is a showcase of her indispensable poetic gifts, a tribute to a writer both ascetic and ecstatic.

     About the Author: Lisa Russ Spaar is the author of many collections of poetry, most recently Orexia (Persea, 2017), and a collection of essays, The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry. She is the editor of four poetry anthologies, most recently More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Award, and the Library of Virginia Award for Poetry. She is a poetry columnist for Los Angeles Review of Books and professor of English at the University of Virginia.