College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Hill describes writing documentary

Thursday, July 12, 2012
Ben Hill of University Communication and Marketing describes his new documentary about the writing history of the UI and Iowa City.

'City of Literature,' the movie

Thursday, July 12, 2012
A new documentary premiering at the Iowa City Book Festival reveals how a modest Midwestern college town became a locus of the literary world.
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Poets and pioneers, writers and rivals

Thursday, July 12, 2012
English faculty member Loren Glass talks about the personalities—and, sometimes, the personality conflicts—that built the University of Iowa community's international standing as a "City of Literature."

Essayists write essays on the essay

Thursday, July 12, 2012
University of Iowa English alumnus Ned Stuckey-French and Carl Klaus, founder of the UI Nonfiction Writing Program, will read from 'Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time,' the book they co-edited for the UI Press, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 25, in Prairie Lights Books.

Reading and discussion feature UI authors

Thursday, July 12, 2012
Iowa native Charles Holdefer, an alumnus of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will read from his new novel, 'Back in the Game,' at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 24, in Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St. in downtown Iowa City.

Hill is interviewed about writing history

Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Ben Hill, director of a new film about the history of writing at the UI and in Iowa City, is interviewed about the project.
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Happy birthday, Carolyn Keene

Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Article celebrates the birthday of the original Nancy Drew author, UI alumna Mildred Wirt Benson.

Poets Morningsnow and Dickey read July 23

Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Iowa poets Blueberry Morningsnow and Melissa Dickey will read from their work at 7 p.m. Monday, July 23, in Prairie Lights Books and on a live stream through the Writing University website.

Investigate Philip Marlowe at Iowa Summer Rep

Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The Iowa Summer Rep festival of “Chills and Thrills” mysteries will present a staged reading of "Trouble is My Business" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 17, in Theatre B of the University of Iowa Theatre Building.
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Stellar collaboration

Wednesday, July 11, 2012
To celebrate NASA’s 50th anniversary, the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, will host a three-month exhibit of NASA-commissioned art, "NASA | ART: 50 Years of Exploration," and a companion display of spaceflight instruments and models designed and built at the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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McLeod on the 'Chuck Close Filter'

Wednesday, July 11, 2012
UI communication studies prof Kembrew McLeod says an artist's digital appropriation of the portraitist's images constitutes fair use.

UI students named to Dean's List for spring 2012

Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Some 3,900 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the Dean's List for the 2012 spring semester.