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Ofstad Visiting Scholar Program
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OFSTAD VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM
The Clayton B. Ofstad Reading Series
Spring 2026
Wednesday, Mar. 18, 2026 | 5 p.m. | Baldwin Little Theatre
SJ Lauro
Reading: “Zombies: Our Mirror Monsters?”
Wednesday, April 1, 2026 | 5 p.m. | Baldwin Little Theatre
Jack Smith
Reading: “
MADNESS
: A Reading”
Fall 2026
Wednesday, [date], 2026 | 5 p.m. | Baldwin Little Theatre
Kevin Guzzo
Reading: “
Silence: The Role of Ellipsis in Linguistics
“
Wednesday, [date], 2026 | 5 p.m. | Baldwin Little Theatre
Rainer Diana Hamilton
Reading: “
Fictional Poetry
“
Browse Past Readings and Lectures
2025
January 30, 2025
Keith Scales
Reading: “Passages from Overlook City”
2024
February 15, 2024
Nina Furstenau
Reading and Q&A
March 6, 2024
Julie L. Moore
Reading and Q&A
April 11, 2024
Kelly Wright
Lecture: “Linguistic High Crimes”
September 12, 2024
Dr. Doug Reside
Lecture: “Forbidden Knowledge: The History and Uses of Theatrical Bootlegs”
October 17, 2024
Dr. Janet Sylvester
Reading: Prize-Winning Work Both Old and New
November 15, 2024
Christine Knapp
Lecture: “Linguistics and Jobs in Tech”
2023
October 19, 2023
Taylor Jones
Lecture: The Linguistic Skills of Leaders
October 7, 2023
Alexandra Rowland
Seminar and Reading: “The Squamish Language Policy and Language Commission”
March 2, 2023
Kyle Eveleth
Ofstad Scholar Lecture: “The Semiotics of Play, or ‘Teaching History through Cannibalism’”
January 26, 2023
Anand Prahlad
A Reading with Ofstad Visiting Writer
2022
Oct. 20,
2022
Nzingha Kendall
Lecture from Visiting Ofstad Scholar Dr. Nzingha Kendall
Sept. 16, 2022
Dr. Caitlin Coons
“Toward Inclusive Linguistic Typology: What Understudied Sign Languages Contribute”
April 1, 2022
Mark Wisniewski
A Fiction Reading with Author Mark Wish and Truman Students
March 15, 2022
Dr. Rachel Weissler
“Approaching Linguistic Discrimination and Social Justice through Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches”
Feb. 4, 2022
Dr. Tabitha Lowery
“Thank God for Little Children’: Frances Harper’s Children’s Poetry, Social Justice, and the Archives in the Twenty First Century”
2021
Oct. 5, 2021
Angela Shaw-Thornburg
Lecture, “‘What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black?’ Stories We Tell About Black Childhood”
Sept. 16, 2021
Maria Miranda Maloney
Reading from
Cracked Spaces
Sept. 8, 2021
Megan Figueroa
“Decolonizing (Psycho) Linguistics Means Dropping the Language ‘Gap’ Rhetoric”
2020
October 29, 2020:
Tricia Levenseller
“Turning Rejection into Success”
October 14, 2020:
Darcy Browning
“Hesitation in Asynchronous Media: Twitter Hashtags and Spoken Discourse Markers in Survivor Stories”
September 17, 2020:
Anne Morey
“‘That’s Marriage’: Gone Girl and the Genealogy of the Paranoid Woman’s Film”
April 2, 2020:
Amanda Nadelberg
“Life Forms: Poems from Daily Habits”
February 19, 2020:
Nicole Ziegler
“Technology-Mediated Task-Based Language Teaching and Research”
February 11, 2020:
Amy Levin
“Dutch Museums as Models for Gender Diversity and Community Engagement”
February 4, 2020:
Neil Hilborn
A Poetry Reading
2019
November 6, 2019:
Zoe Estelle Hitzel
A Poetry Reading
November 4, 2019:
Miyabi “Abbie” Yamamoto
“Reimagining the Ivory Tower”
September 18, 2019:
Sheena Shah
“SiPhûthî, an Endangered Language of Southern Africa”
February 27, 2019:
Elizabeth Kissling
“Accent in the Foreign Language Classroom: Misconceptions, Methodologies, and The Making of a Good Speaker”
February 9, 2019:
Angela Carter
“Classrooms in Crisis: Disability Pedagogy, Feminism, and The Trigger Warning Debate”
February 7, 2019:
Meg Elison
A Speculative Fiction Reading
2018
October 8, 2018:
Alexandria Lockett
“Overflow: The Leaky Politics of Living in The Data Deluge”
October 4, 2018:
Prajwal Parajuly
Selections from
The Gurkha’s Daughter
and
Land Where I Flee
September 19, 2018:
Marissa Fond
“Sociolinguistics in the Field(s)”
April 4, 2018:
Dawn Sardella-Ayres
“Girls’ Literature as Genre and The Importance of Girlhood”
March 1, 2018:
David Elliott
Reading from
Bull
,
Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc,
and other works
February 22, 2018:
Doug Reside
“Editing Musical Theatre in the Digital Age”
February 12, 2018:
Scott Johnson
“Egos and Epigraphy: Decoding Maya Hieroglyphs”
February 8, 2018:
Laura McHugh
Reading from
Arrowood
and “Endgame”
2017
November 9, 2017:
Arisa White
A Poetry Reading
September 7, 2017:
Katherine Riestenberg
“Task-Based Teaching of Endangered Languages: Challenges and Successes of Zapotec Revitalization in Oaxaca, Mexico”
February 15, 2017:
Faith Adiele
Selections from her Nonfiction Writing
2016
September 21, 2016:
Maggie Messitt
Reading from
The Rainy Season
and work-in-progress
February 10, 2016:
Allison Joseph
A Poetry Reading
2015
October 6, 2015:
Prajwal Parajuly
Reading from
Land Where I Flee
March 18, 2015:
Bennett Sims
Multimedia Reading of
White Dialogues
2014
November 19, 2014:
David Chan
Reading from
City of Ghosts
September 30, 2014:
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
A Prose Reading
March 18. 2014:
Cornelius Eady
A Poetry Performance and Reading
April 17, 2014:
David Chan
Reading from
Utopian Fairytales
2013
October 24, 2013:
Paul Legault
Reading from
The Emily Dickinson Reader
and selected poems
Workshops
Ofstad Visiting Scholars Program