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 featured reading events by local and national authors:

Past writers have included

• • Nickolas Butler (Author)  Little Faith (2018 –in partnership with the Chippewa Valley Book Festival)
  • Joyce Ash ( Spring 2019) Internationally recognized poet priginally from Cameroon
  • Julie Schumacher (Spring 2016) First Woman to win  the Thurber Prize in 2015, Author of best-selling academic satires Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement
  • Timothy Yu ( Spring 2017) Asian American poet
  • Gretchen Marquette (Poet) May Day (2015)
  • Mike Bazzett (Poet) You Must Remember This (2014)
  • P.S. Duffy (Novelist) The Cartographer of No Man’s Land (2013)
  • Matt Batt (Memoirist) Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into Our Home Sweet Home (2012)

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

• • Frankenstein (Shelley) selected through a poll of the campus community
  • Fences (Wilson) selected by Chancellor Robert Meyer
  • Ragtime (Doctorow) selected by Chancellor Robert Meyer
  • Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) selected by Provost Patrick Guilfoile
  • Dead Souls (Gogol) selected by Dean Maria Alm, Dean of College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

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.