Current Speakers
Adam Davis
The Wilkes student chapter of ASME will host alumnus Adam Davis during National Engineers Week.
Thursday, February 20
- 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- Stark Learning Center, Room 101
Adam Davis will visit campus to talk with students and faculty about his experiences as a Safety and Crashworthiness Engineer with Toyota in Saline, Michigan. Pizza and beverages will be provided.
Please RSVP by Friday, February 14th if you plan to attend.
Poupeh Missaghi
Plan to join the Wilkes University Department of English for a public reading by Poupeh Missaghi.
Thursday, February 20
- 3:30-5 p.m. Workshop, Digital English Studio, Kirby Hall 204
- 7 p.m. Reading, Kirby Hall Salon (Open to the public)
Poupeh Missaghi is a writer, a translator of Persian, the Iran editor-at-large for
Asymptote Journal and an educator. She holds a Ph.D. in English/creative
writing from the University of Denver and an M.A. in creative writing from Johns Hopkins
University. Her nonfiction, fiction, and translations have appeared in numerous journals,
and she has several books of translation published in Iran. She is currently a visiting
assistant professor at the Department of Writing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn,
N.Y. Her debut novel, trans(re)lating house one, is forthcoming from Coffee House
Press in February 2020.
Howard Norman
Plan to join the Wilkes University Department of English for a public reading by Howard Norman.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8
- 7 p.m. Reading, Kirby Hall Salon (Open to the public)
Lannan Award winner Howard Norman is a novelist, memoirist, and children’s author. Recent works include the memoir I Hate To Leave This Beautiful Place and the novel The Ghost Clause. His books have been translated into fourteen languages and awarded the Harold Morton Landon Prize in Translation from the Academy of American Poets. A long-time faculty member at the University of Maryland and the New York State Summer Writers Institute, Mr. Norman is working on a memoir of friendship with the painter Jake Berthot, titled The Wound Is The Place The Light Enters You; a collection of his letters sent to W.S. Merwin from Japan while walking Basho’s okunohosomiche, Narrow Road to the North; and a graphic noir, Detective Levy Detects, with illustrations by Annie Bakst. According to E.L. Doctorow, “Both in his fiction and nonfiction, Howard Norman is a national treasure—that rarest of things, an original mind writing original prose.
“All I Did Was Ask,” an afternoon with Terry Gross
Max Rosenn Lecture Series in Law and Humanities
Award-winning host of NPR’s Fresh Air
- 2:30 p.m., April 19, 2020
- Dorothy Dickson Darte Center
The moderated lecture, “All I Did Was Ask: An Afternoon With Terry Gross” will offer a behind-the-mic glimpse of her innovative and hugely popular public radio show, Fresh Air. Recounting stories of extremely successful interviews as well as relating entertaining tales of particularly disastrous interviews, Gross will share a side of herself that her listeners rarely get to see. The lecture will be preceded by a student question-and-answer session and conclude with a book signing.
Events are free and open to the public.
Patrons requesting accommodations or services at Wilkes University or Wilkes University-sponsored events in accordance with The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title III: Public Accommodations are asked to contact the University at 1-800-Wilkes-U to request such services/accommodations. It is recommended that requests be made at least 48 hours prior to any event.
