Wednesday, April 16, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm
About this Event
1 Campus Center Way, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
https://www.umass.edu/english/troy-lecture #troy, english, speakerThe Troy Lectures on the Humanities and Public Life are presented in honor of the late Frederick S. (Barney) Troy, Emeritus Professor of English, honorary professor of the University and former trustee.
The list of past speakers is singularly distinguished, and includes Colson Whitehead, Nadine Gordimer, Sherman Alexie, Margaret Atwood, Judith Butler, J.M. Coetzee, Seamus Heaney, Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka and Zadie Smith.
The Troy Lecture for 2025 speaker is Dionne Brand.
Dionne Brand is the author of numerous volumes of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her latest poetry collection, Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. Her other collections have won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, and the Trillium Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include Bread Out of Stone, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging and most recently, Salvage. From 2009 to 2012 she served as Toronto’s poet laureate, and in 2021 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. She lives in Toronto.
4/16/25 at 4:30pm in the Campus Center Auditorium on the first level of the campus center. 1 Campus Center Way. This event is free and open to the public.