Literature and Communication
November 15, 2009 - Leonard Marcus is one of the children's book world's most respected and versatile writers, historians, and critics.
October 15, 2009 - Simon Gikandi is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. He is currently completing a book on the relation between slavery and the culture of taste.
April, 2009 - Juliette Cherbuliez is a professor of French at the University of Minnesota. Her research is on premodern literature and culture.
"Digital Poetics ": A reading by John Cayley with comment by Rita Raley, March 5, 2009
"The Suicide Collectors": Reading by author David Oppegaard, February 10, 2009
Keir Neuringer is a composer and performer who also writes texts and makes videos and installations critical of the destructive behavior of the dominant culture.
November 9, 2008 - A lifetime of interest in words and wordplay - Maria Damon is a professor of English at the University of Minnesota.
"Life on the Upper Mississippi" - Performance by Patricia Hampl with Dan Chouinard, October 9, 2008
April 14, 2008 - Kao Kalia Yang is the author of Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Coffee House Press, April 2008). She is a Twin Cities-based writer and film maker, and she is the co-founder of Words Wanted, an agency dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services.
April 10, 2008 - David Beard and Mark Huglen of the Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies Collaborative are both interested in issues of communication and critical theory. Huglen is a professor of Communication at UMN Crookston and Beard is a professor in the Department of Writing Studies at UMN Duluth.
March 6, 2008 - Eric Black was a journalist for the Star Tribune for three decades and founder of its blog, the Big Question, before taking a buyout in June of 2007 and starting his own blog called Eric Black Ink. Black Ink recently became part of the new online startup MinnPost.com.
February, 2008 - John Treat is a professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University, where he specializes in modern Japanese fiction.
March, 2007 - Anselm Hollo is a Finnish poet and translator and an Associate Professor in the Graduate Writing and Poetics Department at The Naropa Institute.
December, 2006 - Christine Marran is a professor of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota, where she specializes in modern Japanese culture and literature with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and identity in print and film culture.
November, 2006 - Madelon Sprengnether is a Regents Professor in the department of English at the University of Minnesota. She is a poet and feminist scholar, specializing in Freud, psychoanalytic criticism and women writers.