English Department Offers Readings from Current Works

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected]

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., February 11, 2016—Two members of the Williams College English Department will read from their recent works at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 16, in Griffin Hall, room 3. The event is free and open to the public.

Alison Case, professor of English, will read from her novel, Nelly Dean (Pegasus, 2016), a gripping and heartbreaking reimagining of life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the title character, the Earnshaws’ loyal servant, Nelly Dean. Case’s novel, released in the United Kingdom in 2015 and this month in the United States, has been called “a page turner” with the “makings of a feminist classic.” Case’s specialty is Victorian literature and the novel.

Paul Park, a lecturer in the English Department, has published 12 novels and two books of short stories. His work has been nominated for multiple awards. His 2013 novella, Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance, was a finalist for the Nebula Award. Park will read from his most recent work, Other Stories, which gathers a decade of short fiction in a variety of discordant genres; and All Those Vanished Engines (Tor Books, 2013), which is part memoir, part science fiction and braids alternating strands of history, distorted memory, and impossibility.

The Department of English is the sponsor of this event.

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Published February 11, 2016