Category: English
Love of liberal arts drives professors’ donation
Retired Sweet Briar professors Sue and Lee Piepho recently committed to a bequest of $1.5 million to the College. The endowed fund will support programs and facilities that have been part of the Piephos’ lives here for more than 40 years.
Nine Honors Summer Research Fellows Named
The Sweet Briar Honors Program has announced the 2012 Honors Summer Research fellows.
Fairy Tale Expert to Speak on Hunger Games
Sweet Briar College will present “From Hunger Narratives to Hunger Games: Fairy-tale Tricksters,” a talk by renowned fairy tale scholar Maria Tatar, at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in the Boxwood Room at the Elston Inn Conference Center. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Sweet Briar’s Lectures and [...]
Lecture Features ‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’
Sweet Briar alumna Diana Maury Robin ’57 will present this year’s Gerhard Masur Memorial Lecture at 8 p.m. Friday, April 13, in the Wailes Center. “Shakespeare’s Sisters: Voices of Italian Women Writers in England, 1500-1820” is sponsored by Sweet Briar College Friends of the Library. The talk is free and open to the public. Robin [...]
Creative Writers Gather at Sweet Briar for Annual Conference
Sweet Briar will host its fourth annual Creative Writing Conference from March 22-25. Featuring public readings and craft talks by visiting writers, as well as workshops for participating undergraduate students from various states, it is distinct among writing conferences of its kind in the country. This year, Sweet Briar is expecting a total of 70 [...]
‘A Writer’s Gotta Have Nerve’
Since graduating from Sweet Briar five years ago with a degree in English and creative writing, Shavonne Wei-Ming Clarke ’07 has made quite a name for herself. Last fall, her short story “Third Wife” was published in the Bellevue Literary Review and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Set in Singapore, the narrative pays homage to [...]
Iranian Writer Shares Bestselling Memoir at SBC
Iranian-born writer Jasmin Darznik will read from her book, “The Good Daughter: A Memoir of my Mother’s Hidden Life,” at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 5, in the Browsing Room at Cochran Library. The reading is free and open to the public. Darznik, who lives in Charlottesville and teaches English and creative writing at Washington and [...]
A Writer’s Gift Speaks Volumes
As a writer traveling abroad, Masha Hamilton sees people’s needs. As a conscientious person, she does something about them, even if it’s not what she set out to do. Two non-profit organizations, the Camel Book Drive and the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, have resulted from this tendency of hers to act. The former supplies books [...]
Teaching in Fiji
Kelly Mosher says she developed a passion for teaching during high school when she volunteered at a local children’s museum and coached a youth cheerleading squad. Now a senior liberal studies major with a concentration in English and creative writing, she plans to earn her Master of Arts in Teaching from Sweet Briar in 2013. [...]
Young Artists Set to Wrap BLUR Debut
On July 9, 26 high school students representing 13 states will say goodbye after spending three weeks together — three intensive weeks among kindred spirits at Sweet Briar College’s first Blue Ridge Summer Institute for Young Artists. The residential program was held on the College’s 3,250-acre campus, where in their free time participants could take [...]
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