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The Department of Ethnic Studies
Celebrates its 30 Year Anniversary
Monday, March 16, 2009
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Theatre
206 Bowen Thompson Student Union
Beverly Guy-Sheftall"Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Studies."
Beverly Guy-Sheftall is the founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and Anna Julia Cooper Professor
of Women’s Studies. She has published a number of seminal texts within African American and Women’s Studies, including the
first anthology on Black women’s literature, Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature (Doubleday, 1980), coedited with Roseann P. Bell and Bettye Parker Smith; Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought (New Press, 1995); and Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality (Indiana University Press, 2001), co-edited with Rudolph Byrd. She also coauthored Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities (Random House, 2003) with Johnnetta Betsch Cole. In March, I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, co-edited with Rudolph P. Bryd and Johnnetta B. Cole will be released by Oxford University Press. In 1983 she became founding
co-editor of Sage: A Scholarly Journal of Black Women which was devoted exclusively to the experiences of women of African descent. She is the incoming president of the National
Women’s Studies Association (NWSA).
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Indigenous Voices: Native American Writers Series
Thursday, March 26, 2009
7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
115 Olscamp Hall
A Reading by Frances Washburn
The Power of Words in Native American Literature and Oral Tradition
Book signing after talk
Frances Washburn (Lakota/Anishinabe) teaches American Indian studies and English at the University of Arizona. She earned
a master's degree in creative writing and a doctorate in American studies from the University of New Mexico. Her poetry, fiction,
and creative nonfiction have appeared in American Indian Quarterly, Studies in American Indian Literature, and American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Her acclaimed novel, Elsie's Business was published in 2006 by the University of Nebraska Press. In the author’s words, Elsie’s Business is “intriguing, mysterious, and tragic....The events that happen to Elsie, happen to young Indian women everywhere.... I
am asking readers to remember all those whose deaths have been forgotten.” Her latest novel, The Sacred White Turkey, is drawn from her own life experiences growing up in and around Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and is scheduled
for release in Fall 2010.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Mylander Room
207 Bowen Thompson Student Union
Laura Tohe
Notes from the Glittering World
Book signing after talk
Laura Tohe is Diné and was raised by her family and relatives on the Navajo reservation. She has written and co-authored
four books. Her most recent book, Tseyi, Deep in the Rock won the 2007 Glyph award for Best Poetry and Best Book by Arizona Book Association and is listed as a Southwest Book of the
Year 2005 by Tucson Pima Library. She is currently working on a book of oral history on the Navajo Code Talkers. Her father
was a Code Talker and received a Silver Medal for his contribution. She is the 2006 Dan Schilling Public Scholar for the
Arizona Humanities Council. She writes essays, stories, and children’s plays that have appeared in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
She wrote a commissioned libretto, Enemy Slayer, A Navajo Oratorio, for the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra that made its world premiere in February 2008. She teaches at Arizona State University
in Tempe, Arizona.
For more information about the Indigenous Voices: Native American Writers Series or information for future events in the Fall,
2009, please contact Dr. Billy J. Stratton, Department of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University, strattb@bgsu.edu
All events are free and open to the public.
Supported by the Ethnic Cultural Arts Program
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