Book Launch for "Andrew Marvell: A Literary Life" by Alum Matthew Augustine
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Book Launch for "Andrew Marvell: A Literary Life" by Alum Matthew Augustine
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Matthew Augustine graduated with his PhD in English & American Literature in December 2009. He is now Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. His forthcoming book Andrew Marvell: A Literary Life is published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of its subject’s birth.
Join us to hear Dr. Augustine in conversation with Dr. Giulio Pertile, and enter into a discussion of the varied career of this poet, satirist and politician.
The Making of A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill
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The Making of A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill
April 23 from 4:00pm-5:00pm CST, sponsored by University Libraries.
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Esteemed American poet James Merrill wrote thousands of letters in his lifetime, to hundreds of recipients. Joel Minor, Curator of the Modern Literature Collection at Washington University Libraries where the James Merrill Papers reside, moderates a discussion with four panelists about how these letters were aggregated and organized for a book of Merrill’s selected letters (Knopf 2021).
The book’s co-editors, Langdon Hammer, the Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University, and Stephen Yenser, Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, will be joined by Chelsie Malyszek, Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Hampden-Sydney College, and Tim Young, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at Yale University’s Beinecke Library, both of whom played major roles in these efforts.
The event includes an audience Q&A and book sales from the Washington University Campus Store. Event co-sponsored by the James Merrill House.
Virtual Book Club: ‘People of the Book’ by Geraldine Brooks
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When asked to conserve the priceless and famed Sarajevo Haggadah, Hannah Heath jumps at the chance to work with the beautiful Jewish text. She unlocks the books mysteries and past through her conservation work, learning about the extraordinary illuminations, the Catholic priest who saved it from burning, and the man who risked his life to save the book from the Bosnian war.
Special guest Danielle Creech, head of preservation, digitization, and exhibitions, will give a brief presentation on conservation and preservation at WashU and lead discussion of the novel.
