Writer and critic to speak at Denison

Date of Event: April 9, 2012

Posted: March 30, 2012

GRANVILLE, Ohio—Jerry Ward, the Eminent Scholar/Professor of English at Dillard University, will speak at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 9, in the Board Room of Denison University’s Barney Davis (200 West Loop). The lecture, sponsored by the college’s Beck Series, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Anneliese Davis at 740-587-6207 or visit www.denison.edu.

Ward is a poet, scholar and author and the co-editor of “The Richard Wright Encyclopedia,” the editor of the anthologies “Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry,” “Redefining American Literary History” and “The Cambridge History of African American Literature.” He also is a poet and memoirist; his recent book “The Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery” is Ward’s account of personal and communal processes of recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Calendar Listing:

CALENDAR LISTING, Denison University, Granville— Lecture by Jerry Ward, professor of English at Dillard University, at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 9, in the Board Room of Barney Davis (200 West Loop). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Anneliese Davis at 740-587-6207 or visit www.denison.edu.

About Denison:

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

For press inquiries:

Name: Ginny Sharkey
Position Title: Media Relations
Primary Email: sharkeyv@denison.edu
Business Phone: (740) 587-6266

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