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Ron Tanner Retires

Ron Tanner has enjoyed success as an essayist, a novelist, and a writer of short fiction. Across these genres, he has displayed a distinctive voice that is wry, compassionate, and learned, deeply attuned to the delights and oddities of American culture.

The Writing Department’s Travel Writing Course

Travel Writing (WR355) is an online course open exclusively to students who are studying abroad. The goal of this class is for students to learn different forms of travel writing, while also delving into the history, culture, and traditions of their host country and city.

Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize

Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold is awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction shortly after reading at Loyola’s Modern Masters Reading Series.

Joseph J. Capista’s Poetics of Recognition

Loyola Alum Joseph J. Capista read poems from his award-winning debut collection, Intrusive Beauty, in the Modern Masters Reading Series.

Faculty

Andrea Leary, Ph.D.

Meet a writing professor who believes service-learning inspires her students as much as it prepares them for their futures

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Upcoming Events

Phil Klay’s 2020 Humanities Symposium Keynote Lecture (“War, Literature, and the Long Road Home”)
Monday, September 14, 2020 at 6:00 PM, Virtual Zoom Webinar
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Julia Elliott, on Genre Mixing, Writers At Work
Monday, September 28, 2020 at 6:00 PM, Virtual Zoom Webinar

Eula Biss: Modern Masters
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 6:00 PM, Virtual Zoom Webinar
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Allen Brizee, Commitment to Justice Annual Pane: Disability Justice
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 7:30 PM, Zoom

Ramón Espejo-Saavedra – Writer’s At Work
Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.

Camille Dungy: Modern Masters
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 6:00 PM, Virtual Zoom Webinar
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