Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series
The Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series features both emerging and internationally-acclaimed writers, allowing students, faculty, and community members to engage with important figures in contemporary literature through classroom meetings, public readings, and question and answer sessions. This series serves as an important experiential learning opportunity for students, creating a unique career and professional development opportunity, and inviting students to experience contemporary literature both in and outside of the classroom. Additionally, it provides a meaningful cultural and literary experience for members of the public, enhancing Terre Haute’s vibrant literary community. With readings held in the University Art Gallery, the series celebrates multidisciplinary relationships among the arts. The writers who visit ISU for the Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series serve as an inspiration to our students and members of our community.
All readings are free and open to the public.
NOTICE: The Theodore Dreiser Visiting event featuring Callista Buchen has been cancelled. More information about future events will be forthcoming.
Upcoming Events:
Callista Buchen
Tuesday, March 17th
2020
6:00 pm
University Art Gallery
Callista Buchen holds an MA from the University of Oregon, an MFA from Bowling Green State University, and a PhD from the University of Kansas. She is an assistant professor at Franklin College in Indiana, where she directs the creative writing program, advising the student literary magazine, The Apogee, and curating the visiting writers reading series.
The winner of DIAGRAM’s essay contest and the Lawrence Arts Center’s Langston Hughes Award, she is the author of the full-length collection Look Look Look (Black Lawrence Press, October 2019), the chapbooks The Bloody Planet (Black Lawrence Press, October 2015) and Double-Mouthed (dancing girl press, October 2017). Her poetry appears in Harpur Palate, Puerto del Sol, Fourteen Hills, Salamander, and others, while her reviews have been published in journals like Prick of the Spindle, The Literary Review, and The Collagist. She also writes frequently with the poet Amy Ash. Their collaborative work has appeared in journals like BOOAT and Poetry South, as well as been featured in the Inflectionist Review and in They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing.
Julie Morrissy
Thursday, April 23rd
2020
6:00 pm
University Art Gallery
Julie Morrissy is an Irish poet, academic, critic, and activist. She is a recipient of the Next Generation Artist Award from the Arts Council. Her first collection Where, the Mile End (2019) is published by Book*hug (Canada) and tall-lighthouse (UK). Her debut poetry pamphlet I Am Where (Eyewear 2015) was shortlisted for Best Poetry Pamphlet in the Saboteur Awards 2016. She has been awarded residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, and The Writer’s Room at The Betsy, Miami. In 2016, Morrissy was included in “The Rising Generation" issue of Poetry Ireland Review, edited by Vona Groarke. Her creative and critical work has been published widely in Ireland, the UK, Canada and the US, including in Winter Papers, gorse,
Cyphers, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, ASAP/Journal, The North and White Wall Review.
Morrissy earned her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at Ulster University, where she was Vice-Chancellor Research Scholar. She also holds graduate degrees in Creative Writing (University College Dublin 2013), and Literature (Ryerson University 2014), and a bachelor’s degree in Law (University College Dublin 2006). She is the first Newman Fellow in Creativity at University College Dublin.
Contact Information
Dr. Amy Ash
Director of Creative Writing
Root Hall A-215
424 North 7th Street
Terre Haute, IN 47809-1928
Amy.Ash@indstate.edu
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