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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA– Avid writer, poet and literary scholar, Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin will be the invited lecturer for the Amos Scholarly Lecture Series on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 4 p.m. The lecture will be held in the newly renovated Ware Center Theater on Lincoln’s main campus in southern Chester County, PA. The topic being discussed is “Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers.”
Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin is the executive director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and professor of English at James Madison University. Former English professor of Lincoln University, Gabbin has also authored and edited several books, serves on the board of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and is the founder of the Wintergreen Women Writers’ Collective, which promotes scholarship in African American literature. She has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, scholarship and leadership; among them is the College Language Association Creative Scholarship Award for her bookSterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition (1986).
“Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin is a scholar indeed of the highest caliber,” says Gladys Willis, dean of Humanities and Graduate Studies. “Her legacy at Lincoln is her contribution to building a strong program in African American literature and serving as the faculty advisor to the school newspaper, The Lincolnian. Her joyful and welcoming spirit energized many of her students to excel beyond their wildest dreams. We are honored to have Dr. Gabbin as our guest lecturer for the upcoming Amos Scholarly Lecture in March.”
The Amos Scholarly Lecture Series was established by two Lincoln alumni Ernest C. Levister ’58, a former member of the Lincoln University Board of Trustees, and his brother, Harold H. Levister ’64, in memory of their mother, Mrs. Ruth Amos Levister.
The two alumni are descendants of Reverend Thomas Hunter Amos, founder and president of Harbison College in Abbeville, S.C. His father, Thomas Henry Amos, was a member of Lincoln University’s first graduating class in 1859. Thomas Henry Amos died as a missionary in Liberia, Africa.
The purpose of the lecture series is to “stimulate the minds of the Lincoln family in their Liberal Arts studies, with emphasis on the theological, philosophical, classical, historical, and the mathematical and scientific disciplines.”
The event is free and open to the public.
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