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2022 Writers Festival: Reading (Andrew Holleran)

Ustler Hall

MFA@FLA is thrilled to welcome pioneering gay author Andrew Holleran to read from his work. Holleran’s body of work represents a tremendous leap forward for LGBTQ+ literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. His most recent novel, Kingdom of Sand, was selected as a 2022 “Editor’s Choice Pick” by the New York Times Book Review. Audience members

2022 Writers Festival: Reading (Dana Spiotta & Ishion Hutchinson)

Ustler Hall

Please join MFA@FLA at Ustler Hall to hear acclaimed author Dana Spiotta (Stone Arabia) and poet Ishion Hutchinson (House of Lords and Commons) read aloud from their bodies of work. Spiotta has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, and more; Hutchinson’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, Granta, Poetry Review, and others. They can be counted among

2022 Writers Festival: Craft Talk

Ustler Hall

MFA@FLA welcomes you to an afternoon with five visiting writers—Dana Spiotta, Geoff Dyer, Jennifer Moxley, Ishion Hutchinson, and Andrew Holleran—as they discuss their writing process and answer questions from the audience. This event is free and open to the public. Complimentary snacks and nonalcoholic beverages will be available.

2022 Writers Festival: Reading (Jennifer Moxley & Geoff Dyer)

Ustler Hall

Please join MFA@FLA at Ustler Hall to hear celebrated poet Jennifer Moxley (Druthers) and author Geoff Dyer (Out of Sheer Rage) as they read from their bodies of work. Dyer has been awarded GQ Writer of the Year, the prestigious E.M. Forster award, and more; Moxley herself has received the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos William Award and her work

Spring 2023 Career Showcase

Stephen C. O'Connell Center

Career Showcase is a University of Florida tradition. It offers students and alumni the opportunity to find explore internships, part-time, full-time, and co-op opportunities in all career pathways. Hosted by the university's Career Connections Center, it is the largest campus-hosted career fair in the Southeast. Career Showcase is two days of in-person networking with top

Spring 2023 Career Showcase

Stephen C. O'Connell Center

Career Showcase is a University of Florida tradition. It offers students and alumni the opportunity to find explore internships, part-time, full-time, and co-op opportunities in all career pathways. Hosted by the university's Career Connections Center, it is the largest campus-hosted career fair in the Southeast. Career Showcase is two days of in-person networking with top

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land: An Evening with Taylor Brorby

Smathers Library, Room 100

Brorby's memoir recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an endangered American landscape that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections.

English Graduate Organization Talk Series: Pedagogy Practices

Virtual

The English Graduate Organization (EGO) at the Department of English, University of Florida, is organizing a 2-day professionalization talk series on Pedagogy Practices. The series aims to support early-career graduate students as they figure out the demands of teaching humanities topics in the current academic climate.

MarketWise Session 4: Career Diversity Panel for Humanities Graduate Students

Zoom

Co-hosted by Dr. Sara Agnelli, from the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere  Please register in advance for this meeting at the location linked here and below. Featuring:   Dr. Megan M. Daly, Ph.D. Assistant University Librarian of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion George A. Smathers Libraries University of Florida Dr. Jacob T. Watson,