2012 Sawatsky Lecture

Featuring Julia Spicher Kasdorf:

This event will take place on:

Friday, February 17, 2012
7:30 pm
Conrad Grebel Great Hall

Reception to follow

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Additional Events:

Wednesday, February 15, 7:00pm
Public Reading and discussion
in the College Chapel
“From Sleeping Preacher to Poetry in America – a writer’s journey”

Thursday, February 16
Two poetry workshops
one for the general public
one for students (both free)
Contact Professor Hildi Froese Tiessen for more information.

Friday, February 17, Noon
Public forum in the College Board Room
Everyone welcome

Julia Spicher Kasdorf is the author of three collections of poetry, mostly recently Poetry in America, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2011.  She attended Goshen College and received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from New York University.  Her first book of poems, Sleeping Preacher won two prominent awards for new writers.  Library Journal ranked her second collection of poems, Eve’s Striptease, among the Best Books of Poetry for 1998.  The Conference on Christianity and Literature selected  her collection of essays, The Body and the Book:  Writing from a Mennonite Life, for its Book of the Year Award.  Her scholarly work includes the biographical study, Fixing Tradition:  Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American.   She co-edited Yoder’s regional classic, Rosanna of the Amish, and Fred Lewis Pattee’s local color romance of the Pennsylvania Dutch, The House of the Black Ring.  She is Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, where she teaches creative writing and serves as poetry editor for Christianity and Literature.

You can listen to the 2010 Sawatsky Lecture here:

For more information on the lecture, contact infocguc@uwaterloo.ca or 519-885-0220, x24264.