Flyer announcing a reading and signing of Gail Griffin\u27s book, Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue, concerning her experiences as a female faculty member at Kalamazoo College beginning in 1977

Ransdell, Lisa

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Denison UniversityDenison Digital CommonsLooking Back, Looking Forward Women's and Gender Studies1994Informational Flyer for Gail Griffin Book Readingand Signing 1994Lisa RansdellDenison UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.denison.edu/lookingbackThis Flyer is brought to you for free and open access by the Women's and Gender Studies at Denison Digital Commons. It has been accepted forinclusion in Looking Back, Looking Forward by an authorized administrator of Denison Digital Commons.Recommended CitationRansdell, Lisa, "Informational Flyer for Gail Griffin Book Reading and Signing 1994" (1994). Looking Back, Looking Forward. 50.http://digitalcommons.denison.edu/lookingback/50To: Colleagues, Friends From: Lisa RansdellReading/Discussion with Gail Griffin, April 12, 7:30 p.m. Faculty Lounge• v: \m writing to extend a special invitation to an event on campus nextweek. On Tuesday, April 12th, Women's Programs is sponsoring areading/discussion by Gail Griffin, author of Calling: Essays on Teaching inthe Mother Tongue. Gail is Associate Professor of English at KalamazooCollege, and a long-time colleague of several of us who have served on theGLCA Women's Studies Committee. I regard her book as one of the mostpowerful and eloquent feminist works I've ever read. Stylistically, it's in thetradition of Adrienne Rich's nonfiction essays and books - a feministreflection on teaching as experience and institution. The content of the bookis well described by her publisher, Trilogy Books:ESSAYS ON TEACHINGIN THE MOTHER TONGUEThe book begins with the author's arrival, as a brand new Ph.D., at Kalamazoo College in1977, and takes her through her first sabbatical year. In the interim, it charts her maturationas a feminist, a professional, a teacher, a woman. With a storyteller's art, Griffin takes us inhand as onlookers while she teaches, counsels, negotiates, empathizes, and reflects.From her vantage point as an academic "insider," Griffin wrestles with issues, ritualsand events familiar to anyone associated with a college or university: sexual harassment,faculty politics, male vs. female development, antifeminist backlash, the perils and rewardsof classroom teaching.These essays contribute to the emerging picture of academe as a world of conflict andchange, hardly the ivory tower of popular mythology. They also movingly depict one woman'sparticular process of evolution in the academic trenches.DESSERT RECEPTION TO FOLLOW IN THE FACULTY LOUNGE

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