After receiving the Windham-Campbell Prize for drama, Kia Corthron published two novels; Abbie Spallen is currently working on her first book. Professor of English, Theater, and Performance Studies, and American Studies, Marc Robinson talks with both writers about leaving their comfort zone to tell stories in a different form.
Tsisti Dangarembga’s three novels have had an enormous impact on women’s writing in Africa and around the world. She’ll discuss all three works in a career-spanning conversation with Courtney J. Martin, the Paul Mellon director of the Yale Center for British Art.
The event will also be livestreamed on the Yale Center for British Art YouTube channel.
Yiyun Li received the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction during the first year of the pandemic. She comes to campus for the first time since receiving the prize to launch her highly-anticipated new novel The Book of Goose and to discuss her work with critic Anthony Domestico. Free copies to the first forty guests! Signing to follow.
Start your festival day with free coffee and treats, book and tote bag giveaways, and a short reading by playwright Aleshea Harris.
Amneris Chaparro, Rice Fellow at the MacMillan Center, will present this talk as part of the CLAIS Colloquium Series 22-23.
Leni Ribeiro Leite will present as part of the CLAIS Colloquium Series 22-23.
Maria Mercedes Piñango (Yale Linguistics) will present as part of CLAIS Colloquium Series.
This talk is given by Dr. Javier Escudero Rodriguez as part of the CLAIS Colloquium Series 22-23.
This talk is presented by Giovanni Batz as part of the CLAIS Colloquium Series 22-23 and is co-sponsored with Agrarian Studies.
Yale University President Peter Salovey presents the 2022 awards in drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and former United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey delivers the annual Windham-Campbell Lecture “Why I Write.”
Trethewey will be introduced by Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review.
The lecture will also be livestreamed on the Windham-Campbell YouTube channel
