Guest Speaker: Anthony Enns
On Friday, March 31st, 7pm, the English department welcomes a guest speaker, Dr. Anthony Enns, from the University of Iowa.
Dr. Enns will present “The Typing Medium: Automatism and Writing Machines in the Séance, the Clinic, and the Office.” This talk will focus on his work in media history, the occult, and cultural studies. It will be followed by a reception at 8:30 pm. View event flier.
Dr. Enns is a recent graduate of The University of Iowa's doctoral program in English, and he also holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Old Dominion University. As a graduate student, he had a great deal of success in developing and publishing both critical and creative work, and he welcomes the opportunity to talk with Western's students about strategies to realize ambitious projects. His own accomplishments as a graduate student include:
- Edited and published a collection of essays, entitled Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability
- Published numerous articles and reviews in critical journals and collections, including Postmodern Culture, Popular Culture Review, Studies in Popular Culture, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and in the anthology Sexual Rhetoric: Media Perspectives on Sexuality, Gender, and Identity
- Co-founded and directed an annual conference, Craft Critique Culture
- Wrote and won grants to study abroad, and found enough funding to spend 3 years living full-time in Berlin
- Wrote and published fiction and other creative work in journals including Kinesis, 100 words, and Impossible Object
- Collaborated on numerous creative projects in a variety of media. His projects and honors include the following: He was the recipient of the Max Steel Writing Award and the Samuel Seldon Playwriting Award, and has served as fiction editor for Reasonable Earthquakes, a journal of new surrealist writing. He is currently working on a novel, The Father Machine.
In addition to his own fascinating work on media history, he would be happy to talk with all of the graduate students here about strategies for developing your projects, both critical and creative, the challenges of pursing further schooling, writing grants, and more.
If you have any questions at all, contact David Banash. We hope to see a great turnout of both graduate students and the graduate faculty for Friday, March 31st!
