2025-2026
Friday, October 17
7:30 p.m.
Corvallis Museum
411 SW 2nd St.
Join the School of Writing, Literature, and Film for our annual MFA Alumni Reading. This year features author Michael Chin (MFA '16) and journalist Scott Latta (MFA '15).
Book signing to follow.
Hell Yes, They'll Liquidate: Literary Counter-Histories of Foot-and-Mouth Disease at the US-Mexico Border
Wednesday, November 5
4 p.m.
Memorial Union 206
Banned in Kansas, Panned in Paris: Frankenstein and the Global Film Audience
Tuesday, January 20
4 p.m.
MU 213
Friday, January 30
6 p.m.
OWEN 101
Presented by Hindus for Peace and SWLF. Free screening followed by moderated conversation with Surabhi Balachander, Assistant Professor of English.
Friday, February 27
7:00 p.m.
Kaku-Ixt Mana Ina Haws
311 SW 26th St.
Book reading with signing to follow.
Misunderstanding & Disappearing: Rhetorics of Undocumented Immigration in the Deterrence Era
Thursday, April 9
4:00 p.m.
MU 208
2024-2025
Friday, September 27
7:30 p.m.
Corvallis Museum
411 SW 2nd St.
Join us for a book reading by Professor Karen Holmberg from her new young adult novel The Collagist.
Book signing to follow.
Death as Preservation in The Winter's Tale
Wednesday, November 20
4:00 p.m.
Memorial Union 208
Trans Hermeneutics and the Pardoner's Holes: Beyond Mutilation
Wednesday, February 12
4:00 p.m.
Memorial Union 208
Friday, February 28
7:30 p.m.
Corvallis Museum
411 SW 2nd St.
Join the School of Writing, Literature, and Film for a reading by author Jamel Brinkley.
Book signing to follow. Free and open to the public.
Friday, April 4
7:30 p.m.
Corvallis Museum
411 SW 2nd St.
Join the School of Writing, Literature, and FIlm for a reading and book-signing with this year's Malamud Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, Elisa Gabbert.
Book signing to follow. Free and open to the public.
Friday, April 25
7:30 p.m.
Corvallis Museum
411 SW 2nd St.
Book signing to follow.
Wednesday, April 30
4 p.m.
Memorial Union 208
Writing Violence: Situating Trans Studies within Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Technical documents play a crucial role in structuring and perpetuating institutional violence (and sometimes, ironically, care) for transgender people. In such a paradox, scholars interested in organizations, professional communication, writing studies, and/or social justice may ask what, exactly, is this violence that “banal” documents can do and what can be done about it? Can rhetoric and writing studies, as the fields exist in state institutions, even meet what is demanded of them?
Friday, May 16
7:30 p.m.
Corvallis Museum
411 SW 2nd Street
A reading with MFA alumnae Zoë Bossiere and Julia Malye.
All Events
The Visiting Writers Series brings nationally-known writers to campus each year and is made possible by generous support from:
The OSU Libraries & Press
The School of Writing, Literature, and Film, The College of Liberal Arts,
Kathy Brisker and Tim Steele
Grass Roots Books and Music
The Literary Northwest Series brings nationally-known writers to campus each year and is made possible by generous support from:
The OSU Libraries & Press, The School of Writing, Literature, and Film, The College of Liberal Arts, Kathy Brisker and Tim Steele, Grass Roots Books and Music
Critical Questions Lecture Series
The Critical Questions Lecture Series brings prominent scholars in literature, rhetoric, and film to OSU. In addition to delivering a public talk, the speakers meet with graduate students to discuss such topics as: the genesis of their work; the state of the field as they see it; and the cultural relevance of scholarship in the humanities.
A reading by MFA in Creative Writing students in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
The Stone Award Literary Achievement honors a major American author who has created a body of critically acclaimed literary work and has been—in the tradition of creative writing at OSU—a dedicated mentor to succeeding generations of young writers.