Literature in a Dynamic World

We believe that reading and discussing literature are vital activities that expand our ideas and provide insights into a dynamic and diverse world. Each year, the Literature Committee—part of the Department of English & Philosophy—promotes the value of literary studies and literary culture across the campus community through two programs:

• The Reader Series. We bring creative writers to campus to share their work. Past writers have included
• Gretchen Marquette (Poet) May Day (2015)
• Mike Bazzett (Poet) You Must Remember This (2014)
• Matt Batt (Memoirist) Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into Our Home Sweet Home (2012)
• P.S. Duffy (Novelist) The Cartographer of No Man’s Land (2013)
  
• Reading Across Campus. We promote a literary text selected by a campus leader through a variety of events, including discussions, lectures, and film screenings. Featured works have included
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke) selected by Chancellor Robert Meyer
• Dead Souls (Gogol) selected by Dean Maria Alm, Dean of College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
• The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) selected by Chancellor Charles Sorensen

Your gift can help provide a modest honorarium to a visiting writer or purchase a copy of a literary text for a student. Thank you for your gift to the Literature Committee.