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  • Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 11:00am to 1:00pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135


Orchid Tierney will be giving a talk based on her completed dissertation on Wednesday, May 8 at 11 am in FBH Faculty Lounge.  The title of her dissertation is Materials Poetics: Landfills and Waste Management in Contemporary Literature and Media. The talk will be followed by a discussion. Immediately after the discussion, we will celebrate Orchid getting her PhD and congratulate her on being appointed to a tenure-track position at Kenyon College, where she will be moving shortly.

Charles Bernstein, dissertation director
Al Filreis and Rahul Mukherjee, dissertation committee.