EGSO Meeting

Hi everyone! I hope the semester is starting well. The first meeting of the English Graduate Student Organization (EGSO) is this Wednesday August 23 @4p. For students new to the department, this is a meeting to discuss the goals, concerns, and questions of English graduate students as well as to meet new people in the department and plan upcoming events. We would love to see anyone who wants to come.

Our first meeting this semester is on Zoom to accommodate people's schedules during this very busy first week.

https://uky.zoom.us/j/2279762667

Please feel free to reach out (asth226@g.uky.edu) with any questions you may have about EGSO or the first meeting!

Best,

Andrew Thibaudeau

(he/him/his)

PhD Student

Graduate Instructor

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Zoom

An Evening with George Saunders

An Evening with George Saunders will be presented both in-person and via livestream. The livestream information will be available as we approach closer to the date. If you wish to attend in-person, please register through eventbrite. There will be a book signing to follow, and books will be available for purchase through Barnes and Noble. 

George Saunders is the author of twelve books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for best work of fiction in English, and was a finalist for the Golden Man Booker, in which one Booker winner was selected to represent each decade, from the fifty years since the Prize’s inception. The audiobook for Lincoln in the Bardo, which featured a cast of 166 actors, was the 2018 Audie Award for best audiobook. ­

His stories have appeared regularly in The New Yorker since 1992. The short story collection Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won the inaugural Folio Prize in 2013 (for the best work of fiction in English) and the Story Prize (best short story collection).

He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, he was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. In support of his work, he has appeared on The Colbert Report, Late Night with David Letterman, All Things Considered, and The Diane Rehm Show.

He was born in Amarillo, Texas and raised in Oak Forest, Illinois. He has a degree in Geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines and has worked as a geophysical prospector in Indonesia, a roofer in Chicago, a doorman in Beverly Hills, and a technical writer in Rochester, New York. He has taught, since 1997, in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University

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Kentucky Theatre 214 East Main Street Lexington, KY 40507
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