"A Poetry Reading with Sandra Lim"
Thursday, February 29, 6:00pm, Barker 133
Bio: Sandra Lim is the author of three poetry collections: The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton, 2021); The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize and the Levis Reading Prize; and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). Other honors include the 2023 Jackson Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and fellowships from MacDowell, the Getty Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Hawthornden Foundation. Her writing has appeared widely in journals and anthologies such as The New York Review of Books, Poetry, The Baffler, Gulf Coast, The New York Times, The New Republic, and elsewhere. She is a Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and is also on the poetry faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. Born in Seoul, Korea, she lives in Cambridge, MA.
About this Series: The 2023-2024 New Directions in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality seminar series is a forum for discussing new interdisciplinary scholarship in the field of women, gender, and sexuality studies. This year's series focuses on Art & Politics in the Asian Diaspora. Featured talks speak to multiple academic disciplines, methods, and traditions while forging an engaged and vibrant intellectual community.
The series is a partnership between the Mahindra Humanities Center, and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard. It is co-convened by Jung Ja Choi, (Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality), and Linda Schlossberg, (Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies).
UPCOMING LECUTRES IN THIS SERIES
Speaker 4: Rani Neutill (Tufts University and Emerson College)
Date: Thursday, April 4, at 5 pm, Barker 133
Title: “Do You Love Me? A Transnational Memoir”
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