Rod and Lorna Sawatsky Visiting Scholar

Friday, February 17, 2012 - 7:30 pm

Featuring Julia Spicher Kasdorf.

Mightier than the Sword:
Martyr’s Mirror in the New World

Julia Spicher Kasdorf is the author of three collections of poetry, mostly recently Poetry in America, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2011. She attended Goshen College and received her BA, MA, and PhD from New York University. Her first book of poems, Sleeping Preacher won two prominent awards for new writers. Library Journal ranked her second collection of poems, Eve’s Striptease, among the Best Books of Poetry for 1998. The Conference on Christianity and Literature selected her collection of essays, The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, for its Book of the Year Award. Her scholarly work includes the biographical study, Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American. She co-edited Yoder’s regional classic, Rosanna of the Amish, and Fred Lewis Pattee’s local color romance of the Pennsylvania Dutch, The House of the Black Ring. She is Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, where she teaches creative writing and serves as poetry editor for Christianity and Literature.

Addition​al events

Wednesday, February 15, 7:00 pm
"From Sleeping Preacher to Poetry in America – a writer’s journey"
Public reading and discussion in the college's Chapel.

Thursday, February 16
2 poetry workshops; 1 for the general public, the other for students (both are free). Contact Dr. Hildi Froese Tiessen for more information.

Friday, February 17, 12:00 pm
A public forum in the college's Board Room; everyone is welcome.

For more information on the lecture, contact infocguc@uwaterloo.ca or call at 519-885-0220 x24264.