Published: February 27, 2018
Four Authors From Cover Stories Anthology to Give Reading at UT March 8
In Cover Stories, 16 of the best contemporary writers take classic stories as their starting point, crafting new stories from familiar tales. On Thursday, March 8, The University of Tampa will welcome four authors from the anthology for a reading in the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery. The event begins at 2:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Edited by Stefan Kiesbye, Cover Stories demonstrates that originality springs from listening closely to previous generations of authors. Along with the 16 new stories in the anthology are the originals each author selected as a starting point. For the event, authors Jane Dykema, Derek Nikitas, Jeff Parker and Terese Svoboda will read their stories from the anthology.
Dykema’s work has appeared in Electric Literature, Cosmonauts Avenue, Volt and elsewhere. Dykema is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow, and she teaches writing at Clark University and Grub Street.
Nikitas is the Edgar Award–nominated author of the novels Pyres and TheLongDivision (St. Martin’s Press) and ExtraLife (Polis Books). Nikitas teaches fiction writing at The University of Rhode Island.
Parker is the author of several books, including Where Bears Roam the Streets: A Russia Journal, Ovenman and The Taste of Penny.
Svoboda is the author of six books of fiction, seven books of poetry, a memoir, a biography and a book of translation from a South Sudanese language. She has won a Guggenheim, the Bobst Prize in fiction, the Iowa Prize for poetry, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for translation and the O. Henry Award for the short story.
This event is part of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference taking place March 7–10 at the Tampa Convention Center, for which UT is a premier sponsor.
For more information, contact Erica Dawson, associate professor of English and writing, at (813) 257-6311 or edawson@ut.edu.
On Sunday, April 8, The University of Tampa’s 2017-2018 Sykes Chapel Concert Artist Series will conclude with a performance by the Philadelphia Brass, called “one of the gems of Philadelphia’s cultural life” by NPR’s Martin Goldsmith. The concert begins at 2 p.m. in the Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values and is free and open to the public.
The concert will have a special emphasis on American music, featuring works by Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Copland, Duke Ellington and Frank Loesser, among others.
On Friday, March 30, The University of Tampa will welcome pianist Frederick Moyer — hailed by The New York Times as “first-class” and The Milwaukee Journal as “a superstar pianist” — for a guest recital. The concert, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Plant Hall Grand Salon.
The program for the performance will include works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Oscar Peterson.
“There are a lot of stereotypes and studies that say boys aren’t as good in second language acquisition as females,” said Harrington, who worked with Assistant Professor Andrew DeMil on the research project, “Gender differences in Spanish Language Learning: Speaking Exams,” which they presented at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference in February and to the UT Board of Trustees March 22.
“We wanted to do a study of our own here at UT. In the previous year (DeMil) had studied reading comprehension of girls versus boys, so we wanted to study speaking this year,” said Harrington, of Maple Grove, MN. “The results were the same though. The boys aren’t any worse, if not the same, as females. They are just extremely underrepresented.”