The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies welcomes Visiting Scholars, Richard Kerridge and Roy Miki. Each Visiting Scholar will spend one week on campus working with students and faculty, and community members. Kerridge and Miki will join together for a public reading to share their recent work on Thursday, March 19th.
- What: Public Reading with Richard Kerridge and Roy Miki
- When: Thursday, March 19, 7pm
- Where: Kelowna Art Gallery, 1315 Water Street
- Admission: Free and open to the public
Richard Kerridge
Richard Kerridge is a nature writer and ecocritic. Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians, published by Chatto & Windus in 2014, is a mixture of memoir and nature writing. It was adapted for BBC national radio and broadcast as a Radio 4 Book of the Week in July 2014. Other nature writing by Richard has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in BBC Wildlife, Poetry Review and Granta. He was awarded the 2012 Roger Deakin Prize by the Society of Authors, and has twice received the BBC Wildlife Award for Nature Writing.
Roy Miki
Accomplished poet/artist Roy Miki is a Professor Emeritus in the English Department at Simon Fraser University, and has published widely on contemporary Canadian literature and on Japanese Canadian concerns. Miki is the author of several books, his third book of poems, Surrender (Mercury Press 2001), received the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Miki received the Order of Canada in 2006 and the Order of British Columbia in 2009.
In addition to this public reading, Richard Kerridge will also offer a lecture on March 18th at 2:00 on campus in CS 227 as part of the FCCS Eco Cultures Research Series. Roy Miki will offer a public talk on March 23rd at 12:30 on campus in ART 112.
For more information, visit fccs.ok.ubc.ca/news-events/speakers-guests/visitingscholars.html