FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept. 15, 2005

CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119, lisa.lacher@drake.edu

DRAKE WRITERS AND CRITICS SERIES KICKS OFF FALL SEASON

The Drake Writers and Critics Series will open the fall season at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, with a lecture by Dale Bauer, professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, titled "Sex Expression and American Women Writers." The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Cowles Library Reading Room, 28th Street and University Avenue.

Bauer specializes in 19th and 20th century American literature and gender studies. She is the author of numerous articles, including "The Other 'F' Word: the Feminist in the Classroom." Her books include "The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing" and “Feminist Dialogics."

Other programs presented this fall by the Drake Writers and Critics Series are:

• “Margaret Sanger in Her Own Words” as told by storyteller Skywalker Payne at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, in Cowles Library Reading Room.
• Drake Writers’ Night welcomes students, faculty, staff and alumni to bring and read a poem, short fiction or an essay at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, in Medbury Hall Honors Lounge, 1317 28th St.
• “Documentary Fictions/Fictional Documentaries: an Essay Film” will be presented by professor, renovator and producer Eric Faden, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, in Cowles Library Reading Room.
• Lisa Jarnot, author of three full-length collections of poetry, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in Cowles Library Reading Room.
• Drake Writers’ Night welcomes students, faculty, staff and alumni to bring and read a poem, short fiction or an essay at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29, in Medbury Hall Honors Lounge.

All programs are sponsored by the Drake University English Department and the Center for the Humanities and are free and open to the public. For more information, call (515) 271-3127.

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