Event date:
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 6:00pmto 7:15pm
Event Location
Ciné
234 Hancock Ave
Athens, GA 30601
This lecture is presented as the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies’s annual Betty Jean Craige Lecture, co-sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts in partnership with the department of English, the Georgia Review, and the Creative Writing Program. It is part of the Willson Center's Global Georgia public events series. Avid Bookshop will be selling copies of Chee’s books during the event.
Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, all from Mariner Books. A contributing editor at The New Republic and an editor at large at VQR, his essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, The Sewanee Review, and the 2016 and 2019 Best American Essays. He was guest-editor for The Best American Essays of 2022.
He is a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction, and the recipient of a Whiting Award, a NEA Fellowship, an MCCA Fellowship, the Randy Shilts Prize in gay nonfiction, the Paul Engle Prize, the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Leidig House, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak.
Chee is a full professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont.
The annual Betty Jean Craige lecture honors Craige, University Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and a former director of the Willson Center.
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