Lycoming College will welcome published author and expert on American history Robert Parkinson, Ph.D., as keynote speaker for its inaugural Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference, with a talk entitled “Making Thirteen Clocks Strike as One: Race, Fear, and the American Founding.” Parkinson’s lecture will be held on Saturday, April 1, at 5 p.m., in the Trogner Presentation Room of the Krapf Gateway Center. The event is free and open to the public.
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New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary will lecture at both Bucknell University and Lycoming College March 7 and 8 respectively about her book, The Foundling, an historical fiction novel based on the Laurelton Village for Feebleminded Girls and Women of Childbearing Age. Bucknell will host Leary on Tuesday, March 7, at 7 p.m., in Bucknell Hall. Lycoming will host her on Wednesday, March 8, at 7 p.m., in the Trogner Presentation Room in the Krapf Gateway Center. These collaborative events are free and open to the public.
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Lycoming College's Phoebe Wagner, assistant professor of English, recently participated in a panel discussion about science fiction and fantasy writing.
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Christopher Kulp, Ph.D., professor of physics at Lycoming College, recently won the Mike Resnick Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story by a New Author. His science fiction story titled, “What Would You Pay for a Second Chance?,” will be published in an upcoming edition of Galaxy’s Edge magazine.
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Girls Who Invest, Million Dollar Solution, The Honest Company– these are just a few of the internships Lycoming College students have completed in the past. English literature and French double major Maya Jenkins ’23 added to this repertoire of student experiences with an internship at Folio Literary Management, an agency who represents and who has worked on award-winning titles, such as The Art of Racing in the Rain and Water for Elephants.
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Lycoming College is pleased to welcome eleven faculty members to its community this fall, bringing with them extensive knowledge and experience in their fields. With ecocriticism on the theatre stage, operatic styles in the music hall, Anglo-modernism in literature, expertise in stellar evolution, and more, these professors will enrich the classrooms at Lycoming College.
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The Tributary, an annually published literary journal edited by students at Lycoming College, released its 2022 issue. This year, the journal, comprised of student prose, poetry, and artwork, is available in print as well as online with The Tributary’s new online presence. Along with this new medium, the journal will be implementing new changes over the next year, including opening up to national undergraduate submissions and establishing pay for student submissions.
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In her book Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen, Linda Dahl writes: “Researching many of the women’s contributions to jazz is like what I imagine collecting butterflies to be—you go out with your net to many a remote, even secretive spot to track your shy and elusive quarry.”
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Lycoming College welcomes Zachary Lesser, Ph.D., as this year’s guest speaker for the James and Emily Douthat lecture series. Lesser’s presentation, “Before the First Folio: Who Was Shakespeare in 1619?,” will take place Thursday, Oct. 28, at 7:00 p.m. in the Academic Center, D-001 with a reception to follow. The event is free and open to the public.
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“I’ve always felt a little bit outside of any club,” explains writer/singer Angela Carole Brown, “living on the fringes, not really doing things in the way that would be expected of me as a woman, as a black person, as an artist.”
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“I think we tend to extricate things from broader and larger contexts,” explains music and literature scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin. “If you’re talking about any musical form—whether it’s jazz or bebop, specifically, or hip hop—the music tends to be a part of the culture.”
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The Tributary, Lycoming College’s annually published literary journal, recently published its 2020 issue. This year, the professionally bound journal features prose, poetry, and art from more than 20 different Lycoming students.
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“One wishes things were better, but one has to tell the truth,” said the late literary scholar Harold Bloom in a 2003 interview with jazz expert Tom Reney. “That’s why I have so many enemies.”
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In regard to his book, “What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years,” Ricky Riccardi, director of research collections for the Louis Armstrong House Museum, said, “I wanted anybody to be able to pick it up and be engaged… You don’t need to be a musicologist; Armstrong’s life alone was dramatic enough: race, failing health, all the accomplishments, the humorous anecdotes — that was enough.”
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“[Jazz] was just there [during my childhood], so it was like breathing: inhaling and exhaling,” Wesley Brown explained in the most recent addition of Brilliant Corners.
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