Writers Work with Catherine Madsen
Rescheduled from March 8
Join us as Catherine Madsen discusses her work towards the Yiddish Books
Center's unique mission to preserve and save an endangered literature; her role
at CrossCurrents, a national interdisciplinary, interreligious journal; and how
these pursuits relate to her own fiction and nonfiction writing.
Catherine Madsen is Bibliographer at the National Yiddish Book Center in
Amherst, and a contributing editor to the journal CrossCurrents based in New
York City. She is the author of a novel, A Portable Egypt; a forthcoming study
of the cognitive characteristics of strong liturgical language, The Bones
Reassemble: Reconstituting Liturgical Speech; and essays in The Sun, Tikkun,
Signs and other journals.
WRITERS WORK: making art, making a living hosts a rich array of professionals
working in fields related to literary, book, and other arts, but distinct from
academia. Showcasing the ways writers and other artists find careers in which
to apply their skills, and the ways art lovers bring the arts into their lives,
editors, publishers, librarians, booksellers, arts administrators and other
professionals share how their careers and their love of literary and other arts
intersect.
Writers Work is a program of the Juniper Initiative and is made possible by
support from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers, English Dept., CHFA,
Commonwealth College, UMass Arts Council and Alumni Association.
Light refreshments will be served.
Directions & Parking
Goodell is located west of the campus pond and Old Chapel, and is easily identified by its portico with four white columns at the entrance. Public parking is available in the Campus Center parking garage or in Lot 32 across Mass. Ave. Handicapped parking is located on the north side of the building on Hicks Way.