The John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Program 2007

2007 Selection - On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Cover of On the Road

The seventh annual Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Library Exhibition will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The University Library display cases will feature original materials and facsimiles from the special library collections of Brown University as well as Columbia University where Kerouac was an undergraduate. Additional display items will highlight Kerouac's friends and colleagues from the Beat Generation of writers, particularly Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. The exhibit will be open to the public from February 1 through March 15 during regular Library hours. For further information, contact Christine Fagan of the RWU Library at 254-3029 or cfagan@rwu.edu.

Events:

Book Discussion Group
Dr.James Tackach, Professor of English and Creative Writing
Roger Williams University

Michael Gizzi, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing
Roger Williams University

Monday Feb. 5, 2007
5PM - Mary Tefft White Cultural Center
Roger Williams University Library
Co-sponsors: University Honors Program and RWU Library

Jack Kerouac's Literary Children
Michael Gizzi, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing
Roger Williams University

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007
3PM - CAS 152
Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences

KEYNOTE ADDRESS


All My Words Are One Word
The Posthumous Fame of Jack Kerouac
Dr. Ann Charters, Professor of English
University of Connecticut

Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007
4PM - CAS 157
Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences

Library Exhibition

Feb. 1 - March 15, 2007
Prepared by Professor Christine Fagan
Collection Development/Acquisitions Librarian
Roger Williams University

Sponsored by the John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Library Fund.'

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