OSL Workshop with Anne Boyer: ‘Autotheoretical approaches to writing illness and health’
Utrecht University | 7 December 2023, 13:00-15:00 CET | Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, Room 106
Organizers: Mia You (Universiteit Utrecht) and Hannah Van Hove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Co-organizers: Sarah De Mul, Nadia de Vries, Andries Hiskes, Carmen Verhoeven
Open to: PhDs and RMA students; OSL members have first access.
Credits: 1EC. NB: Credits can only be awarded to humanities ReMA and PhD students from Dutch universities.
Registration opens via this link on November 1st, 9am and closes on December 1st, end of day
THE WORKSHOP IS FULLY BOOKED, please send an e-mail with your with your name, affiliation, status (ReMA, PhD, other) and research school membership to osl@rug.nl. We will put you on our waiting list.
In this workshop aimed at PhD and RMA students, we will reflect on autotheoretical approaches to writing illness and health. More information about the workshop and how to prepare for it will follow soon via the OSL website and newsletter.
Anne Boyer is a poet and essayist. Her most recent book, The Undying: Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care, won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in General Non-fiction. She was also the inaugural winner of the 2018 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and winner of the 2018 Whiting Award in nonfiction/poetry. Her books include A Handbook of Disappointed Fate as well as several books of poetry, including the 2016 CLMP Firecracker Award–winning Garments Against Women. She was born and raised in Kansas, and was educated in its public schools and libraries. She is currently the poetry editor for the New York Times Magazine and teaches at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
After the workshop, the following public event will take place:
A reading with Anne Boyer, in conversation with Nadia de Vries and Anna Poletti
Utrecht University | 7th December 2023, 17:00-19:00 CET (Exact location tba)
Organizers: Mia You (Universiteit Utrecht) and Hannah Van Hove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Co-organizers: Sarah De Mul, Nadia de Vries, Andries Hiskes, Carmen Verhoeven
Open to: All (please click here for info on registration)
In this program, open to the public, Anne Boyer will read from her Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir The Undying and her recent poetry. She will also engage in a conversation with Anna Poletti, associate professor of English Language and Culture (Utrecht University), and Nadia de Vries, writer and critic.
Anne Boyer is a poet and essayist. Her most recent book, The Undying, won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in General Non-fiction. She was also the inaugural winner of the 2018 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and winner of the 2018 Whiting Award in nonfiction/poetry. Her books include A Handbook of Disappointed Fate as well as several books of poetry, including the 2016 CLMP Firecracker Award–winning Garments Against Women. She was born and raised in Kansas, and was educated in its public schools and libraries. She is currently the poetry editor for the New York Times Magazine and teaches at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Nadia de Vries is a writer and critic from Amsterdam. She is the author of the English-language poetry collections Dark Hour (2018), I Failed to Swoon (2021), and Know They Audience (2023). She also writes in Dutch and is the author of the memoir Kleinzeer (2020), which describes the invisible world of illness (ranging from childhood leukemia to adult depression), and the fiction novel De bakvis (2022).
Anna Poletti is Associate Professor of English Language and Culture at Utrecht University. They are the author of Stories of the Self: Life Writing After the Book (2020). They also recently co-edited Graphic Medicine, a publication which brings together comics artists and scholars of life writing, literature, and comics.
These events are organized by the OSL-funded research incubator ‘Creative-Critical Approaches to the Health Humanities’.
Team members:
Sarah De Mul, Open Universiteit
Nadia de Vries, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
Andries Hiskes, Universiteit Leiden en Haagse Hogeschool
Hannah Van Hove, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Carmen Verhoeven, Koningstheateracademie
Mia You, Universiteit Utrecht and Sandberg Instituut
