EVENT: Two WVU authors at Sycamore Circle Series
The West Virginia University Native American Studies Program is hosting a Sycamore Circle presentation this Thursday, featuring two of its faculty authors, Cari Carpenter and Carol Markstrom, who will discuss their recently published books.
Carpenter is an assistant professor of English, and a core member of the Native American Studies Committee. Her book, “Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians,” (Ohio State University Press) is the first of its kind to examine expressions of women’s anger as a potential force for social change through the poetry and prose of three early American Indian writers.
Markstrom is a professor in the Department of Technology, Learning and Culture in the College of Human Resources and Education at WVU. Her book, “Empowerment of North American Indian Girls: Ritual Expressions at Puberty,” (University of Nebraska Press), examines ceremonies for American Indian girls past and present, featuring an in-depth look at Native American ideas about human development and puberty with special attention to four communities: Apache, Navajo, Lakota and Ojibwa.
The Sycamore Circle Presentation and book signing will be April 24 at 5 p.m. in the Robinson Reading Room at the downtown WVU Library in Morgantown. The two authors will be on hand following the presentation for a book-signing and reception. The event is free and open to the public.
The Sycamore Circle series was developed to give students, faculty, and community members an informal means to learn more about Native American subjects.
For more information, please e-mail Bonnie Brown or call her at (304) 293-4626.
