The West Virginia University Department of English will host a reading by faculty member Ethel Morgan Smith on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Gold Ballroom of the WVU Mountainlair. The reading is free and open to the public. A book signing and reception will follow.
Smith is the author of “From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College” and “Reflections of the Other: Being Black in Germany.” Her essay “Love Means Nothing,” was the winner of the 2005 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Award. Smith has published in national and international journals, including Callaloo and African American Review. She is also the recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Bellagio, Italy, a Fulbright Fellowship to Germany, a Visiting Artist-American Academy in Rome Fellowship, a DuPont Fellowship, and a Brandeis University-Women’s Research Center-Visiting Fellowship.
“Ethel is a terrific writer and a dynamic reader,” said Mark Brazaitis, a professor in the Department of English and the director of WVU’s Creative Writing Program. “This will be a great evening. I guarantee it.”
In addition to teaching at WVU, Smith has taught at the University of T�bingen, Randolph Macon Woman’s College, and Virginia Tech.
For more information, contact Mark Brazaitis, at 304-293-9707 or Mark.Brazaitis@mail.wvu.edu
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