THE AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

PRESENTS

NED STUCKEY-FRENCH

"BALDWIN, DIDION, DIGITIZATION, AND THE FUTURE"

Thursday, October 6, 2011

4 pm

Niles Gallery

Lucille Little Fine Arts Library

Co-Sponsored by Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program

Ned Stuckey-French teaches at Florida State University and is book review editor of Fourth Genre. He is the author of The American Essay in the American Century (University of Missouri Press, 2011), co-editor (with Carl Klaus) of Essayists on the Essay: Four Centuries of Commentary (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming 2012), and coauthor (with Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French) of Writing Fic-tion: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Longman, 8th edition). His articles and essays have appeared in journals and magazines such as In These Times, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Walking Magazine, culturefront, Pinch, Guernica, middlebrow, and American Literature, and have been listed three times among the notable essays of the year in Best American Essays.

In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month

The Latin American Studies Program Presents

Film: Señoritas Extraviadas,

Lourdes Portillo, Director

Artist Diane Kahlo and LAS Director, Carmen Martínez Novo to host discussion following film

October 13^th Thursday - 4 pm

New Student Center 230

In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month

The Latin American Studies Program

present

Diane Kahlo’s “The Disappeared Señoritas of Ciudad Juárez”

Art Exhibition Opening

Tuska Gallery, Fine Arts Building

October 10^th Monday – 7 pm

Lecture by Dr. Jacqueline Couti, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies

Jacqueline Couti, an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Kentucky, will discuss how the development of "doudou," a Creole term in the French Caribbean, was adopted by 19th century European scholars to rewrite national identity in the  then French colony of Martinique. Martinique is now a department, which is an administrative district of France.

 Everything you’ve always wanted to know about the International Studies Major

Tuesday, September 27, 6-7 pm,

Classroom Building Room 110

(refreshments provided)

Interested in learning more about the IS major?

Come learn about:

• Our new Director,
• Education Abroad scholarships for IS majors,
•  IS thematic and world area concentrations and FLIE,
• what you can do with this major when you graduate,
• how you can get involved

Featured guests will be on hand to answer your questions, including:

New IS Director Carlos de la Torre & Education Abroad