Paolo Javier
& Irina Reyn
Wednesday, October 3, noon
Health Sciences Building, Room 121
Paolo
Javier is the current Queens Borough Poet
Laureate. He is the author of 4 chapbooks and 3 full-length poetry collections,
including The Feeling is Actual.
Irina Reyn, born in Moscow, is the author of What Happened to Anna K. The novel has been described by Publishers Weekly as a worthy remake [of
Anna Karenina] set among early 21st-century
Russian-Jewish immigrants in New York City.
Elizabeth
Nunez & Kamala Nair
Tuesday, October 9, noon
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Elizabeth
Nunez, a native of Trinidad, has published 8
novels including Bruised Hibiscus (winner
of an American Book Award), Anna
In-Between, Prospero’s Daughter, and
her most recent, Boundaries (a New
York Times’ Editors’ Choice).
Kamala
Nair was born in London and grew up in the
United States. Her debut novel, The Girl
in the Garden, has been described as “lovely” and “lush. “Set in the
southern tip of India, the story is a part fairy-tale and part coming-of-age
novel.”
Martha Witt
& Glenville Lovell
Wednesday, November 14, 11 am
Health Sciences Building, Room 121
Martha
Witt’s novel, Broken as Things Are, is set in North Carolina, the author’s home
state. The novel has been described by Library
Journal as “a much-touted debut about a young girl’s close relationship
with her autistic and ultimately violently jealous brother.”
Glenville
Lovell, born in Barbados, is the
author of several prizewinning plays, the literary novels Song of Night and Fire in the
Canes and two murder mysteries Too
Beautiful to Die and Love and Death
in Brooklyn.
Jonathan
Haynes has guest-edited a special issue of the Journal of African Cinemas devoted
to the Nigerian film industry. It includes his introduction and a
remarkably extensive bibliography of academic work on Nigerian and
Ghanaian video films on which he has been working for a long time. 
