[Englmajors] Northwest authors on campus for ENGL 457!!

[Melissa Wensel]

Just in case some of you missed it, I want to point out an amazing 
Summer Quarter course, ENGL 457: Pacific Northwest Literature.  The 
course will feature visits by prominent northwest authors and field 
trips to readings and performances.  This is a remarkable opportunity to 
experience contemporary American literature as it is being created right 
here in our region.  This course is also being offered as HSTAA 433 and 
is completely free of registration restrictions:


457 A (Pacific Northwest Literature)
TWTh 9:40-11:20
Lamberton
(full term)
This course will focus on literary texts by historical and contemporary 
writers associated with the Pacific Northwest., and will feature visits 
by prominent writers associated with the region. Students will meet and 
talk with the following writers about their work: Marilynne Robinson 
(author of Housekeeping and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Gilead); Heather 
McHugh (UW poet, essayist, and translator); Richard White (Stanford 
historian of the American West); Debra Magpie Earling (novelist and 
professor of Native American Studies, University of Montana); Kim Barnes 
(memoirist and novelist, University of Idaho); Roberrt Wrigley (poet and 
essayist, University of Idaho). In addition to the class sessions, 
students will also attend readings by the above writers, and see, in 
Seattle’s ACT Theatre, David Wagoner’s play, First Class, about the 
influential teaching of renowned poet and UW professor Theodore Roethke. 
Professor Dan Lamberton is Director of the Humanities Division, Walla 
Walla College. The course meets with HSTAA 433A, taught by Professor 
John Findlay, UW Department of History. Students in both classes meet 
together, and share most of the same readings, but will have different 
assignments, depending on whether they are signed up for ENGL 457 or 
HSTAA 433. By arrangement, students may opt to enroll for more than one 
course. See department advisers for more information.


Melissa Wensel
English Advising
(206)543-2634