Please mark your calendars and syllabi for Guest Speakers and Fanfare
appearances by Department colleagues:
2010 Fanfare: Guest Speakers:
Name Date Time/Event Location
Sheryl St. Germain, Wednesday, October 13, 7 p.m.; Reading/Q & A Student Union Theater (open to
public); Thursday, October 14, 9:30 a.m., Q & A for students studying St. Germain in class, D Vickers
210; Thursday, October 14, 2 p.m., Discussion, primarily for English and LAS majors, Writing Center (D
Vickers 383)
James Wilcox, Thursday, October 28, 9:30 a.m., Q & A for students studying Wilcox in class, D Vickers
210; Thursday, October 28, 2 p.m., Discussion, primarily for English and LAS majors, Writing Center (D
Vickers 383); Thursday, October 28, 7 p.m., Reading/Q & A, Student Union Theater (open to public)
Related Events: Faculty Speakers
Name Date Time/Event Location
Alison Pelegrin, Wednesday, September 29, 12 p.m.
“Roundtable Discussion of Sheryl St. Germain’s Poetry,”
Writing Center (D Vickers 383)
Jack Bedell, Thursday, September 30, 12:30 p.m.
“Publishing Creative Writing: The Example of ‘Navigating Disaster’”
Writing Center (D Vickers 383)
Tim Gautreaux, Tuesday, October, 5, 12:30 p.m.
Contemporary Art Gallery
Jack Bedell and Bev Marshall, Tuesday, October 12, 12:30 p.m.
Contemporary Art Gallery
Richard Louth, Thursday, October 21, 12:30 p.m.
Roundtable Discussion of James Wilcox’s ‘Camping Out’”
Writing Center (D Vickers 383)
Alison Pelegrin and Norman German, Tuesday, October 26, 12:30 p.m.
Contemporary Art Gallery
Norman German, Wednesday, November 10, 12:00 p.m.
Novel Reading: Switch-Pitchers
Writing Center (D Vickers 383)
FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES:
Jack B. Bedell, professor of English and editor of Louisiana Literature and
director of Louisiana Literature Press. His most recent books are Call and
Response, Come Rain, Come Shine, and French Connections: A Gathering of
Franco-American Poets.
Tim Gautreaux, Writer-in-Residence in the English Department, ranks among the
nation's most honored fiction writers. His achievements include two
collections of stories (Same Place, Same Things, and Welding with Children)
and three novels (The Next Step in the Dance, The Clearing, The Missing).
Norman German, professor of English, will read from A Savage Wisdom. A
specialist in twentieth-century American literature, he has also published
award-winning short stories, novels, poems, and literary criticism. His
stories have appeared in commercial and literary magazines, including
Shenandoah, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Sport Fishing, and Salt Water
Sportsman.
Richard Louth, professor at Southeastern since 1978, is founding Director of
the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project. He has received both the College
of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the
University President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. His most recent
publication is "Francesca," which was the 2010 Creative nonfiction winner in
Country Roads Magazine annual writing contest.
Bev Marshall, Writer-in-Residence in the English Department. She is the
author of Walking Through Shadows, Right As Rain, and Hot Fudge Sundae Blues.
Alison Pelegrin, English Department, is the recipient of fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Louisiana Division of the Arts. She
is the author of two poetry collections, most recently Big Muddy River of
Stars, as well as poems in numerous magazines and journals.