Join us in celebrating the work of our graduating second-year MFA students! Readers will include Gussie Beaver, Rose Darline Darbouze, Tim Fab-Eme, Alaina Johansson, Chibuike Ogbonnaya, Jamjun Rorsoongnern, and Taylor Thomas. Gussie Beaver received her B.A. in English from Duquesne University in 2022, Summa Cum Laude. She was the 2021 recipient of the O’Donnell Undergraduate Research Award and the Carroll Creative Writing Scholarship. This enabled her to attend the Elk Rivers Writer’s workshop in Livingston, Montana. She was a Duquesne University Writing Center consultant. Gussie was featured in Duquesne’s alumni magazine Much Ado and was the treasurer of the Duquesne Poet’s Society. Her work has been published multiple times in the literary magazine Lexicon. She is interested in the personification of animals and objects and experimenting with formation. Her favorite poets are Emily Dickinson and e. e. cummings. Rose Darline Darbouze  is from Béraud, Haiti. She is an MFA candidate in creative writing and is a recipient of a grant from the Graduate School Professional Development Awards at the University of Notre Dame. She was the 2022-2023 Sparks Editorial Fellow at Notre Dame Review, and her work is forthcoming in the Birmingham Poetry Review.Tim Fab-Eme is an engineer and poet who experiments with poetic forms on environmental and social justice themes. He’s the Issue 7 poetry editor of Reckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, and Cove Park’s 2022 funded writer-in-residence on climate action. Tim loves exploring nature, gardening, and fishing in the mangrove swamps of his island home, Egun-Okom (Ogonokom). His work has appeared in The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Magma, New Welsh Reader, About Place Journal, Reckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, Channel: Ireland’s Environmental Literary Journal; apt, Planet in Crisis Anthology, Deep Wild Journal: Writing from the Backcountry, Land and Territory Anthology, Delmarva Review, FIYAH, and The Future of Black: An Afrofuturism & Black Comics Poetry Anthology, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, FU Review, The Maine Review, etc. His other projects center on the lore, myth, and experiences of marginalized folks and communities. Alaina Johansson lives in Indiana with dogs, Brigit and Søren. Previous work is published in Early American Literature, Psaltery & Lyre, and 3:AM Magazine. An MFA student studying Poetry at the University of Notre Dame, Johansson works as an editorial assistant at Action Books.Chibuike Ogbonnaya writes stories that explore humanity, gender and sexuality. They obtained combined honors in English and Literary Studies and History and International Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Their unpublished collection of thematically linked short stories featuring women, feminine gay men, and gender queer was a finalist for the Iron Horse Literary Review First Book Prize. Chibuike is an alumni of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Workshop. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Green Mountains Review, The Forge Literary Magazine, Taint Taint Taint Magazine, Stellium, Akuko Magazine, Black Femme Co, and elsewhere.Jamjun Rorsoongnern is a ลูกครึ่ง (Thai american) writer gripped by the musings of nondiscursive knowledge building. At times, their writing dons normative white religious aesthetics in a subversive exploration/queering of sensuality & disidentification. Admittedly a theory nerd, she finds herself fangirling over Barthes, Vuong, Muñoz, Baldwin, & Derrida. Jam writes towards literary/linguistic openings in hopes of creating liminal utopias/liberation/depths with their reading/cultivated communities. Taylor Thomas (she/her) is a biracial emerging writer from Indiana. Her work has been published in Bayou Magazine, Salt Hill Journal, The Journal, So to Speak Journal, and many more. She was the runner-up for the 2024 Nicholas Sparks Prize Fellowship. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She lives in South Bend, Indiana with her husband, Herschel, and her dogs, Bella & Buster. Website: taylornoellethomas.com   

The Notre Dame Symphonic Winds and Symphonic Band perform their annual Spring Concert. Composed of undergraduate and graduate students, these two ensembles will present an afternoon of music featuring overtures, marches, and traditional concert band works. The grand finale features the combined bands performing traditional Notre Dame school songs, including the famed Notre Dame Victory March. This is a free but ticketed event. Tickets will only be available for pick-up one hour prior to the performance. To guarantee your reservation please pick-up your Will Call tickets at least 15 minutes prior to the performance. In the event of a sell out, unclaimed Will Call tickets will be used to seat patrons waiting on standby. https://performingarts.nd.edu/event/16379/nd-symphonic-winds-and-symphonic-band/

The Seminar and 18th-& 19th-century Studies, Department of English, invites you to a presentation by Stefan Uhlig, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Davis. Stefan provides this abstract:   Josiah Wedgwood has been rightly praised as a commercial genius. He reserved a large part of his business for the reinvention or—as an authority like Joshua Reynolds put it—copying of ancient vases dug up around Naples. One contention of this talk will be that Wedgwood mobilized a complex understanding of aesthetic value to help sell his luxury goods. In fact, I tend towards the claim that Wedgwood crafted and, less competently, sold his most expensive work in large part to explore and, as my title has it, replicate the exercise and the experience of taste for customers. The second aspect of my talk involves Erasmus Darwin’s textual extension of the Wedgwood project. Darwin taught his readers that reflective judgement could not only, pace Kant, involve commercial interests but could, equally, sustain the old ambition of a certain kind of verse to teach and educate its readers.  Stefan Uhlig received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is the co-editor of collections on Wordsworth’s poetic theory, the dialogue between aesthetics and the work of art, Goethe’s ideas about world literature and, with Yasmin Solomonescu, the persistence of persuasion past the formal teaching of the art of rhetoric. His Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography: The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2024.

Join other language learners in our multi-language reading club! Spend an hour relaxing, reading for fun in the company of others. Bring a foreign language book, magazine, or newspaper or read one from the library collection.

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