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College at Oneonta News

September 12, 2007
 
NATIVE AMERICAN SCHOLAR TO READ AT SUNY-ONEONTA
 

ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Author and poet Molly McGlennen, the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American Studies at Vassar College, will present a reading from her work on Thursday, September 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for Multicultural Experiences in Lee Hall at the SUNY College at Oneonta. Admission is complimentary, and members of the community are invited to attend.

McGlennen's poetry has been published in such journals as Frontiers, Shenendoah, and Atlantis, as well as in the anthology Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing. Her scholarship includes research on Native American literature, art, and women. She is currently at work on a book of poetry entitled Like Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits and a book of Native American literary criticism entitled It Is Evidence of Faith to Create: Spirituality and (R)evolution in Native American Women's Poetry.

McGlennen, whose heritage includes Anishinaabe, French, and Irish ancestors, holds a Ph.D. in Native American Studies from the University of California, Davis, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College.

More information about the McGlennen's appearance at SUNY-Oneonta is available from the Center for Mutlicultural Experiences at (607) 436-2663.

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