The program offers young and aspiring writers opportunities to interact with Fellows, who are renowned authors, writers, writer-critics and poets, at evening readings and informal teaching sessions. Students enrolled in the Writers House Fellows Seminar will study the works of all three Fellows in the course taught by Al Filreis, English professor and Writers House faculty director.
Delany, an experimental science fiction writer, literary critic, commentator on sexuality and society and advocate of collaborative urban life will visit Penn Feb. 15-16.
Myles has produced more than 20 volumes of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays and performance pieces through her career. She will be at Penn March 21-22.
Weiner, the creator, writer and producer of “Mad Men,” will be on campus April 25-26. Weiner was also the writer of the final two seasons of “The Sopranos.”
During each Fellow’s visit, a reading will take place at Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on Monday at 6:30 p.m., and a brunch will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. followed by a one-hour public interview and conversation. Attendance for each program is by reservation only.
Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.
Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.
Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars
Penn Engineers, NASA, and five other universities tested robotic systems designed to help unmanned explorers cooperate in the dunes of White Sands, New Mexico, paving the way for Moon and Mars exploration.
From framework to actions: Provost John L. Jackson Jr. talks Penn Forward
In a Q&A, Provost John L. Jackson Jr. explains the relationship between the strategic framework In Principle and Practice and Penn Forward—a new University-wide process and action plan that will advance Penn forward for the next decade and beyond.
