Author Sandra Gilbert (photo by Peter Basmajian)
Brackenridge lecture series features California poet
(Feb. 25, 2002)--Poet Sandra Gilbert will speak Feb. 28 and March 1 at the University of Texas at San Antonio as part of the 15th annual Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professorship lecture series.
Gilbert, professor of English at the University of California, Davis, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 on "Death Opens: Of Ghosts and Grief" and at 2 p.m. March 1 on "E-mail to the Dead: On Mourning and Community." Both lectures will be held in the Business Building University Room (2.06.04) on the UTSA1604 Campus. She will participate in the Creative Writing Series Reading at 7:30 p.m. March 1 in the Business Building Auditorium (2.01.02). A reception and book signing will follow each event.
Gilbert is author of six poetry collections, a memoir, critical works and journal essays. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in American Poetry Review, New Yorker and others, as well as several anthologies. A former president of the Modern Language Association, she taught at Princeton, Indiana and Stanford universities. She was named Ms. magazine's "Woman of the Year" (1986) and one of USA Today's "People Who Made a Difference" (1985).
The Brackenridge lecture series, supported by the George W. Brackenridge Foundation, is free and open to the public. For more information contact Linda Woodson, chair of the Department of English, Classics and Philosophy at (210) 458-4374.
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