Goucher College's
Authors Series

Join Professor Mary Marchand, Gwen Curtis '23, and Isabel Rosenthal '23 in an exploration of the Science of Awe and how it differs from wonder and curiosity, its far reaching effects, and its potential for transforming education.

Join Jenny Huddleston O'Grady '98 and explore the world of book arts. Ask questions about materials and tools, how to use your skills in the arts to create books, and how to get started. Book arts are accessible to anyone who might like to try!

INDOMITABLE! Immigrants' Stories of Perseverance and Resilience tells the stories of thirty-two current asylum-seekers and immigrants to our country. Author Margery Leveen Sher '69 will discuss why she wrote this book and how she went about the task. She will then introduce some of the people featured in the book and provide a glimpse into their stories. The immigrants will then update the group on how they are doing, and share some of their hard-won wisdom.

Baltimore native David Miller, M.Ed. ‘97 has received international acclaim for his project Dare to Be King: What If the Prince Lives. Gabe & His Green Thumb is an exciting story about a boy who rediscovers the power of growing food. Gabe's life changes forever one day while working in the garden. Gabe & His Green Thumb is ideal for students grades 1-3. Khalil's Way highlights the journey of Khalil Joseph, an 11-year-old boy growing up in a tough New Orleans community. Khalil's Way is a great chapter book for young readers, ideal for students 4th grade and up.

Juliette Wells is Elizabeth Conolly Todd Distinguished Professor of English at Goucher College. She is the author of two histories of Austen's readers-Reading Austen in America (2017) and Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination (2011), and is working on a third, tentatively titled Americans for Austen: Landmarks in Biography, Criticism, and Collecting. Joining the conversation will be students in her First-Year Seminar, “Pride and Prejudice, Here and Now," who will share their recommendations for recently published books inspired by Austen.

Olya Samilenko, Faculty Emerita was born in New York City, the child of Ukrainian immigrants who emigrated to the United States at the end of World War II. She specializes in nineteenth century Russian prose and satire and soviet avant-garde periodicals from the 1920's. She has travelled extensively to Russia and Ukraine, and speaks the languages of both countries fluently. Join in the discussion of her book, the Snow Goose Chronicles.

April Oettinger is Professor of Art History, Chair of the Visual & Material Culture Program, and Director of the recently inaugurated Sweren Wogan Institute for the Study of the Book at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. A co-author of Green Worlds in Early Modern Italy: Art and the Verdant Earth, this presentation explores the relationship between humans and nature in Renaissance Italy. Through the art of Botticelli, Titian, and their peers, the gardenscapes of Tivoli, and the imagined landscapes of 16th-century dream literature, we will take a close look at the ways in which painters and poets envisioned the lyrical, sometimes haunting, character of the green world.

In the unique and charming memoir Blue Tulip, supported by substantial historical research, author Posey Pincoffs Boicourt '71 leaves home on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, setting out on a series of adventures where she rediscovered the world of a forgotten portrait painter in her family who had worked in Napoleon's Court. Her book Blue Tulip takes its title from an identity she assumes en route.

Dr. Mel Michelle Lewis ‘02 is Associate Professor of Gender/Sexuality & Black/Ethnic Studies and incoming chair of Studio and Humanistic Studies at Maryland Institute College of Art, cultivating Black feminist intersectional queer critical race social justice pedagogies for liberatory art and design education and creative practice. They will read from their manuscript Biomythography Bayou, a decolonizing narrative portraiture project featuring experimental performative writing. With an emphasis on queer, intersex, trans, and femme embodied knowledges, this book engages West African worldviews, Poarch Band (Creek Nation) wisdom, and Black Catholic Creole cosmology, offering readers archival histories, contemporary political discourse, and tellings from the ancestral imaginary.