OFSTAD VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM
The Clayton B. Ofstad Reading Series
Fall 2024
Thursday, September 12, 2024 | 7 p.m. | Ophelia Parrish
Dr. Doug Reside
Lecture: “Forbidden Knowledge: The History and Uses of Theatrical Bootlegs”
A Truman alum, Dr. Doug Reside is the Curator of the Billy Rose Theatre Division and manages all aspects of the division’s collections and public services. He joined the New York Public Library (NYPL) in 2011 first as the digital curator for the performing arts before assuming his current position in 2014. Prior to joining NYPL, Reside served on the directorial staff of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland. He has published and spoken on topics related to theater history, literature, and digital humanities, and has managed several large grant-funded projects on these topics. Reside is especially interested in the use of digital forensic tools to study the creative process. He received a PhD in English from the University of Kentucky.
Thursday, October 17, 2024 | 7 p.m. | Ophelia Parrish 2210
Dr. Janet Sylvester
Reading: Prize-Winning Work Both Old and New
Janet Sylvester’s prize-winning books are And Not to Break (Bordighera Press, NYC); The Mark of Flesh (Norton); That Mulberry Wine (Wesleyan); and Color Wheel (In progress).
2024
- February 15, 2024
Nina Furstenau
Reading and Q&A - March 6, 2024
Julie L. Moore
Reading and Q&A - April 11, 2023
Kelly Wright
Lecture: “Linguistic High Crimes”
2023
- October 19, 2023
Taylor Jones
Lecture: The Linguistic Skills of Leaders - October 7, 2023
Alexandra Rowland
Seminar and Reading: “The Squamish Language Policy and Language Commission” - March 2, 2023
Kyle Eveleth
Ofstad Scholar Lecture: “The Semiotics of Play, or ‘Teaching History through Cannibalism’” - January 26, 2023
Anand Prahlad
A Reading with Ofstad Visiting Writer
2022
- Oct. 20, 2022
Nzingha Kendall
Lecture from Visiting Ofstad Scholar Dr. Nzingha Kendall - Sept. 16, 2022
Dr. Caitlin Coons
“Toward Inclusive Linguistic Typology: What Understudied Sign Languages Contribute” - April 1, 2022
Mark Wisniewski
A Fiction Reading with Author Mark Wish and Truman Students - March 15, 2022
Dr. Rachel Weissler
“Approaching Linguistic Discrimination and Social Justice through Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches” - Feb. 4, 2022
Dr. Tabitha Lowery
“Thank God for Little Children’: Frances Harper’s Children’s Poetry, Social Justice, and the Archives in the Twenty First Century”
2021
- Oct. 5, 2021
Angela Shaw-Thornburg
Lecture, “‘What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black?’ Stories We Tell About Black Childhood” - Sept. 16, 2021
Maria Miranda Maloney
Reading from Cracked Spaces - Sept. 8, 2021
Megan Figueroa
“Decolonizing (Psycho) Linguistics Means Dropping the Language ‘Gap’ Rhetoric”
2020
- October 29, 2020:
Tricia Levenseller
“Turning Rejection into Success” - October 14, 2020:
Darcy Browning
“Hesitation in Asynchronous Media: Twitter Hashtags and Spoken Discourse Markers in Survivor Stories” - September 17, 2020:
Anne Morey
“‘That’s Marriage’: Gone Girl and the Genealogy of the Paranoid Woman’s Film” - April 2, 2020:
Amanda Nadelberg
“Life Forms: Poems from Daily Habits” - February 19, 2020:
Nicole Ziegler
“Technology-Mediated Task-Based Language Teaching and Research” - February 11, 2020:
Amy Levin
“Dutch Museums as Models for Gender Diversity and Community Engagement” - February 4, 2020:
Neil Hilborn
A Poetry Reading
2019
- November 6, 2019:
Zoe Estelle Hitzel
A Poetry Reading - November 4, 2019:
Miyabi “Abbie” Yamamoto
“Reimagining the Ivory Tower” - September 18, 2019:
Sheena Shah
“SiPhûthî, an Endangered Language of Southern Africa” - February 27, 2019:
Elizabeth Kissling
“Accent in the Foreign Language Classroom: Misconceptions, Methodologies, and The Making of a Good Speaker” - February 9, 2019:
Angela Carter
“Classrooms in Crisis: Disability Pedagogy, Feminism, and The Trigger Warning Debate” - February 7, 2019:
Meg Elison
A Speculative Fiction Reading
2018
- October 8, 2018:
Alexandria Lockett
“Overflow: The Leaky Politics of Living in The Data Deluge” - October 4, 2018:
Prajwal Parajuly
Selections from The Gurkha’s Daughter and Land Where I Flee - September 19, 2018:
Marissa Fond
“Sociolinguistics in the Field(s)” - April 4, 2018:
Dawn Sardella-Ayres
“Girls’ Literature as Genre and The Importance of Girlhood” - March 1, 2018:
David Elliott
Reading from Bull, Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc, and other works - February 22, 2018:
Doug Reside
“Editing Musical Theatre in the Digital Age” - February 12, 2018:
Scott Johnson
“Egos and Epigraphy: Decoding Maya Hieroglyphs” - February 8, 2018:
Laura McHugh
Reading from Arrowood and “Endgame”
2017
- November 9, 2017:
Arisa White
A Poetry Reading - September 7, 2017:
Katherine Riestenberg
“Task-Based Teaching of Endangered Languages: Challenges and Successes of Zapotec Revitalization in Oaxaca, Mexico” - February 15, 2017:
Faith Adiele
Selections from her Nonfiction Writing
2016
- September 21, 2016:
Maggie Messitt
Reading from The Rainy Season and work-in-progress - February 10, 2016:
Allison Joseph
A Poetry Reading
2015
- October 6, 2015:
Prajwal Parajuly
Reading from Land Where I Flee - March 18, 2015:
Bennett Sims
Multimedia Reading of White Dialogues
2014
- November 19, 2014:
David Chan
Reading from City of Ghosts - September 30, 2014:
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
A Prose Reading - March 18. 2014:
Cornelius Eady
A Poetry Performance and Reading - April 17, 2014:
David Chan
Reading from Utopian Fairytales
2013
- October 24, 2013:
Paul Legault
Reading from The Emily Dickinson Reader and selected poems