Fletcher Lecture Series
The Fletcher Lecture Series Welcomes Sam Pickering, 2009
“Life has always seemed unendingly rich with stories. Or at least I find myself unaccountably in story after story day after day. Perhaps this is because words are the roots, trunk, branches, buds, blooms, and leaves of my world.”
The “Seeing Things” Lecture
Thursday, March 12, 2009, in Peltier Auditorium
Reception at 5:30 p.m. Lecture at 6:00 p.m.
Admission: Free
Sam Pickering has taught English at the University of Connecticut for 30 years and has written for the Sewanee Review since 1972. He has written 21 books, including academic studies, travel books, and collections of familiar essays. His most recent books are Edinburgh Days, an account of months spent in Scotland, and Autumn Spring, a collection of essays. He is now working on A Tramp’s Wallet, an account of months spent wandering in Australia and New Zealand. This will give him a trilogy on Australia, something, he says, “sounds very high falutin.”
The Fletcher Lecture Series History
The Fletcher Lecture Series, named after former department head Marie Fletcher, brings outstanding scholars and writers to Nicholls each fall.
The scholar or creative writer typically performs both a morning and evening lecture. A monograph of each lecture has been published each year since 1998, and a yearly conference connected to the event began in 2006.
Past lecturers have included:
- Robert Penn Warren
- Ernest Gaines
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Henry Louis Gates