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2005 Dooley Lecture Series

 

Meena Alexander Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Meena Alexander
Meena Alexander was born in India, raised there and in Sudan. At eighteen she went to study in England. Her first poems were published when she was a teenager in Sudan, in Arabic translation. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College and the Ph.D. program at the Graduate Center. Her scholarly work includes two books on English Romanticism; her work in poetics includes a book of poems and essays The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience. Her volumes of poetry include Stone Roots; House of a Thousand Doors; River and Bridge; Illiterate Heart (winner of the PEN Open Book Award); Raw Silk; and two chapbooks, each a single long poem: The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts, and Night-Scene, the Garden. She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Arts Council of England, and the National Endowment for the Humanities
Gordon Sinclair Friday, June 3, 2005
Gordon Sinclair
"Why Doesn't Anyone Listen to Me?"
Gordon Sinclair is a legendary American restaurateur. He has opened and operated several restaurants during his long career including his flagship Gordon restaurant in Chicago.
Sondra Perl Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Sondra Perl
"Beyond Inherited Hatred"
Sondra Perl is a professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is the author of Felt Sense: Writing with the Body and coauthor of Through Teachers' Eyes: Portraits of Writing Teachers at Work. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Katja Esson Friday, November 11, 2005
Katja Esson
"Fairy Tales"
Katja Esson is an Academy Award nominated independent filmmaker based in New York City who mixes documentary and narrative genres. Her films have been shown around the world and aired on stations like HBO, PBS and ARTE.
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