APSU to host 24th annual Bread and Words reading to benefit student food pantry
November 7, 2018
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – For the 24th year, Austin Peay State University students and faculty will read their poetry and fiction on the Monday before Thanksgiving in an effort to raise money for the school’s Save Our Students Food Pantry, which supports students and faculty in need.
24th annual Bread and Words reading to be held at the Austin Peay State University Morgan University Center Ballroom, November 19th.
APSU hosting Slapstick Film Festival this fall
October 9, 2018
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – This fall, the Austin Peay State University (APSU) Department of Languages and Literature will take a look at cinema’s zanier side during its Slapstick Film Festival.
Every year the department, which offers a film studies minor, presents a free film genre series that introduces students and community members to masterworks in different film categories.
Slapstick Film Festival to be held this fall at Austin Peay State University.
Poet, essayist & immigration advocate Marcelo Castillo to speak at APSU’s Asanbe Diversity Symposium
March 10, 2018
Clarksville, TN – In 2016, during an interview for the literary journal Ploughshares, award-winning poet and essayist Marcelo Hernandez Castillo said, “I wish I wasn’t afraid, I wish this wasn’t my reality.”
When Castillo was five, his family moved from Mexico to California, and even though he now has permanent resident status, he told Ploughshares, “That doesn’t mean I’m not still afraid, either for myself or for my family.”
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
APSU to host 23rd Annual Bread and Words reading to benefit APSU Food Pantry
November 14, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful for life’s blessings, and the Austin Peay State University Department of Languages and Literature, in association with the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University, hosts an annual reading to benefit those less fortunate in the community the best way it knows how: with the written word.
23rd Annual Bread and Words reading to be held at Austin Peay on Monday, November 20th.
Fiction, poetry and film on display during Austin Peay State University’s Zone 3 Fall 2017 Reading Series
August 22, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Zone 3, the Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts’ literary journal, welcomes a diverse group of writers, filmmakers and creative minds for its Fall 2017 Zone 3 Reading Series.
Steven Sherrill will travel to campus on September 19th, at 4:00pm to give a reading of his fiction.
APSU professor Dr. Beatrix Brockman publishes German language book on life of Angelika Schrobsdorff
April 25, 2017
Clarksville, TN – When German-born Angelika Schrobsdorff returned to her home country in 2006 after decades abroad, the accomplished writer and Holocaust survivor said it was her hope to “die in my own language.”
Schrobsdorff would ultimately receive her wish, dying in Berlin in 2016 at the age of 88.
APSU’s Dr. Beatrix Brockman with her book “Angelika Schrobsdorff: Leben ohne Heimat”.
Shelby Bottom Duo’s “A Musical History of Joe Hill & The Early Labor Movement” comes to Austin Peay on March 27th
March 19, 2017
Clarksville, TN – On Monday, March 27th, 2017 acoustic folk artists Shelby Bottom Duo, based in Nashville, will bring their multimedia musical history to the campus of Austin Peay State University.
The show, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Morgan University Center, rooms 303 and 305 from 5:00pm-7:00pm.
Shelby Bottom Duo
“Ain’t I a Woman!” to headline Asanbe Diversity Symposium at Austin Peay State University on March 16th
March 2, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Slated for next month at Austin Peay State University, The Asanbe Diversity Symposium will spotlight the lives of four powerful African American women with a performance of “Ain’t I a Woman!” by nationally acclaimed performance group, The Core Ensemble.
The performance takes place on March 16th at 1:00pm in the Trahern Theatre. A panel discussion will take place at 2:30pm in the Wilbur N. Daniel African-American Cultural Center. The Asanbe Diversity Symposium is free and open to the public.
Austin Peay State University Trahern Building. (APSU)
Austin Peay State University alumna Orton heading to grad school at Cambridge
December 8, 2016
Clarksville, TN – In certain academic circles, Dr. Simon Keynes, Elrington and Bosworth professor of Anglo-Saxon history at the University of Cambridge, is considered a “rock star.”
In addition to being the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin and the grandnephew of economist John Maynard Keynes, the renowned professor is a member of the British Academy and a fellow with the Royal Historical Society.
Austin Peay State University alumna Brittany Orton
22nd annual Bread and Words to be held at Austin Peay November 21st
November 17, 2016
Clarksville, TN – To help usher in the Thanksgiving holiday, the Austin Peay State University Department of Languages and Literature will host the 22nd annual Bread and Words Benefit to raise public awareness of hunger in the local community.
2016 Bread and Words reading to be held November 21st
