Author of “The Black Middle Ages,” Matthew X. Vernon
Vernon is the author of The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018, which examines the influence of medieval studies […]
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Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United States
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Author of 鈥淭he Donkey Elegies,鈥 Nickole Brown
Green Drawing Room, MainBrown is the author of The Donkey Elegies (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020); Fanny Says (BOA Editions, 2015), a biography in poems about Brown鈥檚 grandmother, which won the Weatherford Award for […]
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Author of 鈥淧ath to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement,鈥 Ethel Morgan Smith M.A. 鈥90
Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United StatesSmith is the author of three books: Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement (University Press of Mississippi 2023), Reflections of the Other: Being Black in Germany (CreateSpace 2012), […]
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Author of 鈥淟ooking Both Ways,鈥 Pauline Kaldas
Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United StatesKaldas, professor of English and creative writing at Hollins, is the author of Looking Both Ways, a collection of essays (Cune Press 2017); The Time Between Places, a collection of […]
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Farewell Reading 鈥 The Last Cabbage Patch
Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United StatesAn open reading by Hollins seniors and graduating creative writing M.F.A. students. One last chance to hear our favorite student writers read before they depart. Sponsored by the Department of […]
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Helen Phillips Reading and Lecture
Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United StatesHelen Phillips is the author of six books, including the novel聽The Need聽(Simon & Schuster, 2019; Chatto & Windus, 2019), which was long-listed for the National Book Award and named a […]
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Sarah Juliet Lauro Reading and Lecture
Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United StatesSarah Juliet Lauro, Ph.D., is assistant professor of hemispheric literature at the University of Tampa. She has written widely on zombies in literature and film, but her new work focuses […]
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Nathan Osorio Reading and Lecture
Nathan Xavier Osorio won the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for his collection聽Querida.聽Selected by poet Shara聽McCallum,聽his debut collection will be published by聽The University of Pittsburgh Press in September 2024.聽 […]
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Author Reading: Kiki Petrosino
Green Drawing Room, MainJoin us for a special reading with acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino as part of the 2024-2025 Reading & Lecture Series hosted by the Department of English and Creative Writing.