MA in Critical Studies Spring 2018 Creative NonfictionWriters Series Roberta Hunte Shayla Lawson Jerry McGill Maggie Nelson Walidah Imarisha ¶ January 24 ¶ February 20 ¶ February 27 ¶ March 16 ¶ April 11 MA in Critical Studies Spring 2018 Roberta Hunte Shayla Lawson Jerry McGill Maggie Nelson Walidah Imarisha Wednesday, January 24, 6:30pm Tuesday, February 20, 6pm-9pm Tuesday, February 27, 6-9pm Friday March 16, 6:30pm Wednesday April 11, 6:00pm Creative Mediatheque Bridgelab Room 413 Mediatheque Mediatheque Roberta Hunte will discuss Shayla Lawson will be leading In his book, Dear Marcus, Jerry Poet, scholar, and nonfiction Walidah Imarisha will be Nonfiction her work and screen her film a discussion/workshop on McGill addresses the man who writer Maggie Nelson earned lecturing about her writing and Sista in the Brotherhood. Maggie Nelson’s Bluets (2009). shot him and the result is an a PhD in English literature at research. This event will include Writers inspiring narrative about the the Graduate Center, CUNY. a reception and book signing. Dr. Roberta Hunte is an educator, Shayla Lawson’s work has moments in life that shape Her published writing is often Series facilitator, consultant, and appeared in print & online us—those that catch us by described as genre crossing Walidah Imarisha is an educator, cultural worker. She is an at Tin House, GRAMMA, ESPN, surprise, that blindside us, but or hybrid. Bluets (2009) is writer, public scholar, and Assistant Professor in Black Salon, The Offing, Guernica, present us with opportunities perhaps her most well-known spoken word artist. She edited All events: Pacific Northwest College Of Art Studies and Women, Gender, and Colorado Review, Barrelhouse, for growth, reflection, work mix of scholarship and two anthologies, Octavia’s 511 NW Broadway, Portland Oregon Sexuality Studies at Portland and MiPOesias. She is the compassion, and forgiveness. poetry. Her critical study of Brood: Science Fiction Stories More Info: State University where she author of, A Speed Education in He has traveled the globe aesthetics and cruelty, The Art From Social Justice Movements cal.pnca.edu teaches courses on reproductive Human Being, PANTONE, and the mentoring disabled children of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011), and Another World is Possible. pnca.edu/criticalstudies justice, inequality, feminism, and forthcoming, I Think I’m Ready to and sharing the experiences was named a New York Times Imarisha’s nonfiction book, Free and open to the public the African American experience. See Frank Ocean. She is a 2017 in his life that evolved from Notable Book of the Year. Her Angels with Dirty Faces: Three She facilitates trainings on Oregon Literary and MacDowell his transformative encounter genre-bending memoir The Stories of Crime, Prison, and equity, diversity, and inclusion. Colony Fellow, and a member with Marcus. Jerry McGill holds Argonauts (2015) was a finalist Redemption, won a 2017 Oregon She is a collaborator and of The Affrilachian Poets. a B.A. in English literature for the National Books Critics Book Award. She is also the producer of a play, My Walk Has from Fordham University and Circle Award. Nelson’s many author of the poetry collection Never Been Average, and a short an MFA in education from honors and awards include Scars/Stars. She is currently film, Sista in the Brotherhood Pacific University in Oregon. grants and fellowships from working on an Oregon Black both informed by her research the John D. and Catherine T. history book, forthcoming from on black tradeswomen. She is MacArthur Foundation, the AK Press. Imarisha has taught in co-chair of the board for OPAL, Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Stanford University’s Program Environmental Justice and the Foundation, the Guggenheim of Writing and Rhetoric, Portland co-chair of Trimet’s Transit Foundation, and the NEA. State University’s Black Studies Equity Advisory Committee. Department, Oregon State University’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department, and Southern New Hampshire University’s English department. ¶ January ¶ February ¶ February ¶ March ¶ April.