Academics, Publications & Research

Poet Jane Hirshfield (Single Voice Reading Series)

By February 21st 2017

Poet and prose writer Jane Hirshfield will visit the campus of Allegheny College for two events on Thursday, March 9.  She will speak and answer questions on the subject of “Poetry and Mindfulness” at 12:30 p.m. in Odd Fellows 105C, and at 7 p.m. she will read from her work as part of Allegheny College’s Single Voice Reading Series in Ford Memorial Chapel. Both events are free and open to the public.
The Single Voice Reading Series will continue with appearances by Allegheny alumnus James Davis May and author Chelsea Rathburn on April 6. For more information about the Single Voice Reading Series, contact Frederick F. Seely Professor of English Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu.

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Allegheny Single Voice Reading Series Features Poet Jane Hirshfield

By February 21st 2017

Poet and prose writer Jane Hirshfield will visit the campus of Allegheny College for two events on Thursday, March 9.  She will speak and answer questions on the subject of “Poetry and Mindfulness” at 12:30 p.m. in Odd Fellows 105C, and at 7 p.m. she will read from her work as part of Allegheny College’s Single Voice Reading Series in Ford Memorial Chapel. Both events are free and open to the public.

Jane Hirshfield attended Princeton University, where she was among the university’s first graduating class to include women. She has taught at the the University of California, Berkeley, Duke University, University of San Francisco, and Stanford University. In 2012, Hirshfield was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Her work has received extensive accolades. Her collections “Of Gravity & Angels” won the California Book Award in Poetry, “The October Palace” won the Poetry Center Book Award, and her essay “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World” was awarded the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. For “The Lives of the Heart,” she won the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and “Given Sugar, Given Salt” was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award.
Hirshfield’s visit is part of Allegheny’s ongoing Year of Mindfulness, a series of events and a challenge to the campus community to live this year with mindfulness and intention. For more information, visit www.allegheny.edu/yearofmindfulness.
The Single Voice Reading Series will continue with appearances by Allegheny alumnus James Davis May and author Chelsea Rathburn on April 6. For more information about the Single Voice Reading Series, contact Frederick F. Seely Professor of English Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu.

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Allegheny Single Voice Reading Series Features Poet Jane Hirshfield

By February 21st 2017

Poet and prose writer Jane Hirshfield will visit the campus of Allegheny College for two events on Thursday, March 9.  She will speak and answer questions on the subject of “Poetry and Mindfulness” at 12:30 p.m. in Odd Fellows 105C, and at 7 p.m. she will read from her work as part of Allegheny College’s Single Voice Reading Series in Ford Memorial Chapel. Both events are free and open to the public.

Jane Hirshfield attended Princeton University, where she was among the university’s first graduating class to include women. She has taught at the the University of California, Berkeley, Duke University, University of San Francisco, and Stanford University. In 2012, Hirshfield was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Her work has received extensive accolades. Her collections “Of Gravity & Angels” won the California Book Award in Poetry, “The October Palace” won the Poetry Center Book Award, and her essay “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World” was awarded the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. For “The Lives of the Heart,” she won the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and “Given Sugar, Given Salt” was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award.
Hirshfield’s visit is part of Allegheny’s ongoing Year of Mindfulness, a series of events and a challenge to the campus community to live this year with mindfulness and intention. For more information, visit www.allegheny.edu/yearofmindfulness.
The Single Voice Reading Series will continue with appearances by Allegheny alumnus James Davis May and author Chelsea Rathburn on April 6. For more information about the Single Voice Reading Series, contact Frederick F. Seely Professor of English Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu.

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‘Veterans in the Writing Classroom’ published

By February 1st 2017

Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Alexis Hart‘s co-authored article “Veterans in the Writing Classroom: Three Programmatic Approaches to Facilitate the Transition from the Military to Higher Education” appeared in the December 2016 issue of College Composition and Communication. A podcast interview with Hart, her co-author, and the CCC editor can be heard here:
https://www.ncte.org/cccc/ccc/podcasts/hart-thompson

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‘Veterans in the Writing Classroom’ published

By February 1st 2017

Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Alexis Hart‘s co-authored article “Veterans in the Writing Classroom: Three Programmatic Approaches to Facilitate the Transition from the Military to Higher Education” appeared in the December 2016 issue of College Composition and Communication. A podcast interview with Hart, her co-author, and the CCC editor can be heard here:
https://www.ncte.org/cccc/ccc/podcasts/hart-thompson

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David C. Miller (Weiss Faculty Lecture)

By February 1st 2017

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David C. Miller, professor of English at Allegheny College, will deliver the next Karl W. Weiss ’87 Faculty Lecture, “Chicago Consciousness: Democratic Reform and Sensorimotor Awareness,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15 in the Henderson Campus Center, Room 301/302.

Miller’s talk will focus on consciousness and sensorimotor awareness in urban reform, contrasting the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, better known as the “White City,” with Hull-House, founded in an immigrant ghetto. While the Fair presented an ideal city alongside the all-to-real city of Chicago, offering a spectacle of global forces such as consumerism and imperialism, Hull-House fostered mutual exchange across ethnic, class and cultural lines. The two approaches were grounded in opposing notions of human perception and interaction still with us today. Miller will examine the ideas of architect Louis Sullivan, reformer Jane Addams, philosopher John Dewey and sociologist George Herbert Mead.

The Karl Weiss Faculty Lecture Series hosts seven to eight lectures per year by faculty members from various departments in an effort to represent the diversity of scholarship at Allegheny.

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Lectures, Performances Highlight Black History Month at Allegheny College

By January 27th 2017

Waterbearer Poster

Allegheny College Associate Professor of English and Black Studies Valerie Sweeney Prince will present a lecture on “Waterbearer,” a piece of historical fiction written by Prince that examines what it means for African American women to do laundry, as part of Allegheny College’s celebration of Black History Month.

The Thursday, Feb. 9 lecture starts at 7 p.m. in Arter Little Theatre and immediately will be followed by a dramatic reading of an excerpt from “Waterbearer” performed by students and directed by Beth Watkins, professor of Communication Arts/Theatre and managing director of the Playshop Theatre. Both events are free and open to the public.

Other events organized by the Allegheny College Association for the Advancement of Black Culture to celebrate Black History Month include:

  • Poet Afaa Michael Weaver will speak on the subject of labor, poetry and Tai Chi on Tuesday, Feb. 2 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 105C of the Odd Fellows building.  Weaver also will read from his work at 7 p.m. in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center as part of the college’s Single Voice Reading Series. Weaver’s visit is supported by the Black Studies program, the Year of Mindfulness, the John C. Sturtevant Memorial Lectureship, the William Preston Beazell Memorial Fund and the Single Voice Reading Series.
  • A Soul Food Dinner on Sunday, Feb. 4 at 4 p.m. in Shultz Banquet Hall. Tickets are $7 and can be purchased in the lobby of the Henderson Campus Center (preferred) Monday through Friday from 11 a.m, to 1 p.m. Tickets can also be purchased at the door.
  • Black History Month Church Night on Wednesday, Feb. 8 from 7 to 9 p.m. in Ford Chapel with Pastor Markus A. McDaniel, I of United Faith Fellowship Church of God and Pastor Carl Terry of Bethel AME Church.

For more information, contact the Allegheny College Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Social Justice (IDEAS) Center at (814) 332- 2718.

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Lectures, Performances Highlight Black History Month at Allegheny College

By January 27th 2017

Allegheny College Associate Professor of English and Black Studies Valerie Sweeney Prince will present a lecture on “Waterbearer,” a piece of historical fiction written by Prince that examines what it means for African American women to do laundry, as part of Allegheny College’s celebration of Black History Month.

The Thursday, Feb. 9 lecture starts at 7 p.m. in Arter Little Theatre and immediately will be followed by a dramatic reading of an excerpt from “Waterbearer” performed by students and directed by Beth Watkins, professor of Communication Arts/Theatre and managing director of the Playshop Theatre. Both events are free and open to the public.

Other events organized by the Allegheny College Association for the Advancement of Black Culture to celebrate Black History Month include:

  • Poet Afaa Michael Weaver will speak on the subject of labor, poetry and Tai Chi on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 105C of the Odd Fellows building.  Weaver also will read from his work at 7 p.m. in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center as part of the college’s Single Voice Reading Series. Weaver’s visit is supported by the Black Studies program, the Year of Mindfulness, the John C. Sturtevant Memorial Lectureship, the William Preston Beazell Memorial Fund and the Single Voice Reading Series.
  • A Soul Food Dinner on Sunday, Feb. 4 at 4 p.m. in Shultz Banquet Hall. Tickets are $7 and can be purchased in the lobby of the Henderson Campus Center (preferred) Monday through Friday from 11 a.m, to 1 p.m. Tickets can also be purchased at the door.
  • Black History Month Church Night on Wednesday, Feb. 8 from 7 to 9 p.m. in Ford Chapel with Pastor Markus A. McDaniel, I of United Faith Fellowship Church of God and Pastor Carl Terry of Bethel AME Church.

For more information, contact the Allegheny College Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Social Justice (IDEAS) Center at (814) 332- 2718.

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Single Voice Reading Series Features Poet Afaa Weaver

By January 12th 2017

This undated photo released by Claremont Graduate University shows Afaa Michael Weaver. Weaver, who spent two years in the army and 15 years in a factory, has won some life-changing money. Claremont Graduate University in Southern California announced Wednesday, March 12, 2014, that Weaver of Somerville, Mass., has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book of verse, “The Government of Nature.” (AP Photo/Claremont Graduate University, Catherine Laine)

Acclaimed poet Afaa Michael Weaver will read from his work as part of the 2016-17 Single Voice Reading Series at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2, in the Tillotson Room of Allegheny College’s Tippie Alumni Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Weaver’s fourteen collections of poetry include “My Father’s Geography,” “Timber and Prayer,” “Multitudes,” and the three books that make up “The Plum Flower Trilogy.”  Weaver will be launching his newest book of poetry, “Spirit Boxing,” at his reading on Allegheny’s campus.

Weaver has received numerous fellowships and awards, including a National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, a 2002 Fulbright Scholar appointment to Taiwan, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He teaches in Drew University’s MFA Program.

The reading is part of the Year of Mindfulness at Allegheny, a series of events and a challenge to the campus community to live this year with mindfulness and intention. For more information and the full lineup of events, visit sites.allegheny.edu/yearofmindfulness/.

The Single Voice Reading Series includes future appearances by poet and essayist Jane Hirschfield on March 9 and Allegheny alumnus James Davis May, along with Chelsea Rathburn, on April 6.

For more information about the Single Voice Reading Series, contact Frederick F. Seely Professor of English Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu.    

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Single Voice Reading Series Features Poet Afaa Weaver

By January 12th 2017

Acclaimed poet Afaa Michael Weaver will read from his work as part of the 2016-17 Single Voice Reading Series at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2, in the Tillotson Room of Allegheny College’s Tippie Alumni Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Weaver’s fourteen collections of poetry include “My Father’s Geography,” “Timber and Prayer,” “Multitudes,” and the three books that make up “The Plum Flower Trilogy.”  Weaver will be launching his newest book of poetry, “Spirit Boxing,” at his reading on Allegheny’s campus.

Weaver has received numerous fellowships and awards, including a National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, a 2002 Fulbright Scholar appointment to Taiwan, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He teaches in Drew University’s MFA Program.

The reading is part of the Year of Mindfulness at Allegheny, a series of events and a challenge to the campus community to live this year with mindfulness and intention. For more information and the full lineup of events, visit sites.allegheny.edu/yearofmindfulness/.

The Single Voice Reading Series includes future appearances by poet and essayist Jane Hirschfield on March 9 and Allegheny alumnus James Davis May, along with Chelsea Rathburn, on April 6.

For more information about the Single Voice Reading Series, contact Frederick F. Seely Professor of English Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu.    

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