Annual Research Colloquium

Keynote Speaker: Cassie Premo Steele

Cassie Premo Steele is an award-winning environmental poet, novelist, and essayist whose writing focuses on the themes of trauma, healing, creativity, and mindfulness. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and is the author of 18 books, including We Heal from Memory: Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldúa and The Poetry of Witness (Palgrave), Earth Joy Writing: Creating Harmony Through Journaling and Nature (Ashland Creek Press), as well as 3 novels and 7 books of poetry. Her most recent novel is Beaver Girl, which has been selected as the 2024 One Book, One Community selection for the City of Columbia, South Carolina, where she lives with her wife.

https://www.cassiepremosteele.com/

Join us for the keynote address at 6:00pm to learn about: 

Eco-Diversity and the Search for Meaning in Our Writing and Research

Exploring the connections between diversity in our identities, ecosystems and social systems can help us commit more meaningfully to our search for environmental and social justice. This keynote addresses practical ways to find meaning in our writing and research by deepening our relationships between environmental diversity and the healing power of diversity within different aspects of ourselves and our communities.