[JFKI-News] Invitation to Author Reading: Joy Castro | Tuesday, Nov. 19, 4 pm

[Alexander Starre <alexander.starre@fu-berlin.de>]

Dear all,

the Departments of Literature and Culture have teamed up to host another author's reading. We cordially invite you to join us for reading and conversation with Joy Castro, author of The Truth Book and How Winter Began on:

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019

JFKI Room 201, 4-6 p.m.

Joy Castro is the Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she teaches creative writing, literature, and Latinx studies.

You can read up on her award-winning work here: https://www.joycastro.com/

For a taste of her writing, we recommend this recently published short story: http://gulfcoastmag.org/online/summer/fall-2019/betrayed/

Please share this announcement with your students and anyone who might be interested. We're looking forward to the event and hope to see you there,

Birte Wege & Alexander Starre

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Dr. Alexander Starre

John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies

Department of Culture

Freie Universität Berlin

Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin

+49-30-838-59410

http://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/culture

Out Now: Alexander Starre and Heike Schaefer, eds., The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture: Medium, Object, Metaphor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030225445

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