• The Rufus & Louise Reiberg Reading Series

The Rufus & Louise Reiberg Reading Series

The Department of English in the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI Announces
The Rufus & Louise Reiberg Reading Series for Fall 2012

Founded in 1997 in honor of former IUPUI English Department chair Rufus Reiberg and his wife Louise, the series annually brings national and regional writers to the IUPUI campus to present their work. Past visiting writers have included Jane Smiley, Helen Prejean, Maxine Hong Kingston, Patricia Hampl, Richard Jones, Edward Hirsch, and Martin Espada.

 

Upcoming Readings:

   

	Part of the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute Lecture Series February 28, 2013 Cartoonist Alison Bechdel Thursday, 7:00 p.m. Indiana State Musuem Theater 650 West Washington Street   Alison Bechdel is the author of the graphic memoirs Fun Home: A Family Tragicomedy and the 2012 New York Times Notable Book Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama. Her popular comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For ran from 1983 to 2008. Bechdel edited The Best American Comics 2011. She has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney’s, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times Book Review, and Granta,  and she is the recipient of a 2012-13 Guggenheim Fellowship.  Required free tickets available at http://tinyurl.com/bechdeltix .
	International Women’s Day Thursday, March 21, 7:00 p.m. University Library Lilly Auditorium   Join us for this festive celebration of women, literature, and the arts. A reception featuring local advocacy organizations, food, and music begins at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium lobby. For more information, contact Karen Kovacik at kkovacik@iupui.edu.
	Fiction Writer Donald Ray Pollock Thursday, April 11, 7:30 p.m. University Library Lilly Auditorium     Donald Ray Pollock is the author of the story collection Knockemstiff, which won the 2009 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship and the widely acclaimed 2012 novel The Devil All the Time. He grew up in Knockemstiff, Ohio, and worked in a paper mill in Chillicothe, Ohio, for 32 years. His work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Chiron Review, River Styx, Boulevard, Folio, Granta, Washington Square, and The Berkeley Fiction Review.

 

All readings are free and open to the public. IUPUI’s University Library is located at 755 W. Michigan St. The Campus Center is located at 420 University Boulevard. Visitor parking is available in the North Street Garage, 819 W. North St. and the Vermont Street Garage, 1004 W. Vermont Street. For parking information on the IUPUI campus, visit https://www.parking.iupui.edu/visitors.do. For more information about the series, contact Terry Kirts at tkirts@iupui.edu or (317) 274-8929.

The Rufus & Louise Reiberg Series is made possible by the generous support of the Reiberg Family; the Etheridge Knight Festival of the Arts; the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Office of Multicultural Outreach; the Office of Academic Affairs; University College; University Library; the Women’s Studies Program; the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute; the IUPUI Office for Women; the IUPUI Office of Housing and Residence Life; the Office of Student Involvement, and the Rebecca Pitts Fund.