Lerner Lecture with Dawn Tripp

The Woman Behind the Myth: The Story of Jackie

Monday, September 21st at 5:30PM

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

Dawn Tripp is the nationally bestselling author of five novels. Her most recent, Jackie, a fictionalized biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, was longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award and won the San Diego Writers Historical Fiction Award. She is also the author of Georgia, finalist for the New England Book Award and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature from the Library of Virginia. Previous novels include Game of Secrets, Moon Tide, and The Season of Open Water, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Conjunctions, NPR, and others. Her books have been published into a dozen languages. She recently served as writer-in-residence at the Island School, and she is Chair of the Board of the Boston Book Festival. She graduated from Harvard and lives in Massachusetts with her sons.

Quinones Lecture with Ramona Emerson

Horror as Witness: Indigenous Narrative of Colonialism, Trauma and Survival

Monday, November 16th at 5:30PM

McKenna Auditorium

Ramona Emerson—Assistant Professor in the University of New Mexico’s Department of Film and Digital Arts and author of the National Book Award–longlisted novel Shutter and its follow-up, Exposure—explores Indigenous horror as a framework for understanding Indigenous historical experiences of settler violence. She examines how the genre renews oral traditions of hope, vision, compassion while engaging themes of violence, trauma, revenge, and redemption.

Golo Mann Lecture with Jonathan Eig

King: A Life & investigative writing and storytelling

Wednesday, March 3rd at 5:30PM

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

Jonathan Eig, award-winning journalist, biographer, and author, will discuss central themes of his book King: A Life, a biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. He will explore his work as a biographer, investigative journalist, and storyteller and its relevance to aspiring writers and college students.