MFA Residency Public Lecture and Reading Schedule for Thursday, July 11    

All lectures will be in Canon Lounge, Gladfelter or Upper Fellowship Hall, as noted below, on the WWC campus. For more information, call the MFA Office at Warren Wilson College: (828) 771-3715. The schedule is subject to change. Please check www.friendsofwriters.org for updates.

Thursday, July 11   

9:30 AM Fellowship Hall                                      

AIREA D. MATTHEWS ~ Sense Age of Sight: Visual Rhetoric and the Social Turn

We are inundated by visual culture. Through the prolific deployment of memes, selfies, graphic design, Twitter, and identity marketing, there seems very little of our lives that isn’t in some way impacted by our current sense age of sight. This lecture will explore the ways in which visual culture and argumentation (rhetoric) collaborate in creative work to thread the logical, emotional and political spheres of subjectivity. We will examine work by Guillaume Apollinaire, John Cayley, Marjorie Perloff, Eileen Myles, Evie Shockley, Douglas Kearney, Vanessa Angelica Villareal and Jonah Mixon-Webster.

10:45 AM Fellowship Hall                                        

 PETER TURCHI ~ Don’t Stand So Close to Him or Her, or Them, Either                     

This companion to last summer’s “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” will address the advantages of shifting narrative distance in third person narratives. No advance reading is required.

8:15 PM Canon Lounge

READINGS by GRADUATING STUDENTS

Evie Bromiley

Lynnette Curtis

Perry Janes

Alex McWalters

The public is welcome to attend the morning lectures and evening readings in fiction and poetry offered during the Master of Fine Arts Program summer residency.  Events last approximately one hour. Admission is free. The schedule is subject to change. 

For more information, call the MFA Office: (828) 771-371