Amy Kurzweil

Co-sponsored with the Jewish Studies Program

Reading::
Feb. 27, 6:00 pm
The Susan and William Yarmuth Jewish Studies Reading Room, Ekstrom Library (3rd Floor)

Axton Master Class:
Feb. 28, 10 a.m. to noon
Bingham Humanities, Room 300

Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of two award-winning graphic memoirs. Artificial: A Love Story, which documents her father's quest to preserve the identity of his father through AI, was named a best book of 2023 by NPR, The New Yorker, and Kirkus and won the Living Now Book Award. Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir, from 2016, tells the story of three generations of Jewish women in Amy's family. Amy was the recipient of a 2021 Berlin Prize with The American Academy in Berlin and a Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellowship, and she has done residencies at Macdowell and Yaddo. Her series with The Believer Magazine, "Technofeelia," has been nominated for a Reuben Award and an Ignatz award. Her work has also been published in The Verge, The New York Times Book Review, The LA Times, Wired and many other places. She has taught writing and cartooning widely for over a decade.

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Reading:
April 3, 6 p.m.
Bingham Humanities, Room 205

Axton Master Class (Poetry):
April 4, 10 a.m. to noon
Bingham Humanities (HUM), Room 300

Cameron Awkward-Rich's most recent book is The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (Duke University Press, 2022). He is also the author of two collections of poetry: Dispatch (Persea Books, 2019), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, and Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016), finalist for a LAMBDA Literary Award. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere, and he has received fellowships from Cave Canem, The Watering Hole, and the Lannan Foundation. Also a scholar of trans theory and expressive culture in the U.S., Cameron earned his PhD from Stanford University's program in Modern Thought & Literature. His more critical writing can be found in Signs, Trans Studies Quarterly, American Quarterly, and elsewhere, and has been supported by fellowships from Duke University and the American Council of Learned Societies. Awkward-Rich was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Transgender Studies & Humanities Project with the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Presently, he is an assistant professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.