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Contents:

• ROXANE GAY JOS UNIVERSY AS VISG PROFSOR
• PECULIAR BENEFS BY ROXANE GAY
• "WHO GETS TO BE ANGRY?" BY ROXANE GAY
• FACULTY/STAFF NEWS NOW: ROXANE GAY SPEAKS AT ANTI-RACISM/EQUY INSTUTE PROGRAM;OH SUPERUTER STEM CAMPS; APRIL EMPLOYEE WELLNS FOC ON POSIVY; ONSE HEALTH COACHG, APRIL 14; GREAT COLLEG SURVEY DEADLE APRIL 1
• ROXANE GAY GETS PERSONAL AT THE GC
• ROXANE GAY

ROXANE GAY JOS UNIVERSY AS VISG PROFSOR

Roxane Gay — a ntributg opn wrer for The New York Tim, an associate profsor of English at Purdue Universy and the thor of “Hunger” and “Bad Femist, ” among other highly acclaimed btsellers — has kept a by schle for years. This semter, Gay, who has taken a sabbatil om Purdue, will fly to New Haven on alternate weeks to teach a three-hour wrg semar tled “Wrg Trma, ” a skill she has honed through her personal work and which, as she told the News, will be “valuable to stunts.

PECULIAR BENEFS BY ROXANE GAY

When asked how she will balance everythg — the wrg, the profsorship and the advisg mments at Purdue — Gay noted that a heavy workload is not new for her. “I am credibly by, but I’ve managed to teach and have a wrg reer for the past 13 years, ” Gay said.

Gay, who pleted two years of unrgraduate tn at Yale, jos the Universy as one of 10 Printial Visg Fellows this amic year.

"WHO GETS TO BE ANGRY?" BY ROXANE GAY

In addn to her class, Gay will partake two public events — a readg of her work followed by a Q&A on Feb.

FACULTY/STAFF NEWS NOW: ROXANE GAY SPEAKS AT ANTI-RACISM/EQUY INSTUTE PROGRAM;OH SUPERUTER STEM CAMPS; APRIL EMPLOYEE WELLNS FOC ON POSIVY; ONSE HEALTH COACHG, APRIL 14; GREAT COLLEG SURVEY DEADLE APRIL 1

“Sendly, but also importantly, I thk of Roxane Gay as a role mol of an amic wh a broad engagement public scholarship. Gay has never tght this specific urse, but the material is not foreign to her.

ROXANE GAY GETS PERSONAL AT THE GC

Gay has also received regnn for works that diverge om revealg memoirs.

Dwivedi, who had read some of Gay’s works before the class, said that s first day featured the hallmarks of shoppg perd — a discsn of the goals of the urse and of the four says assigned for the first day. Gay was born Omaha, Nebraska.

ROXANE GAY

In "Bad Femist," her 2014 book of says, Roxane Gay laid out a wise, funny and eply empathetic visn of morn femism, acceptance and inty — flaws and all.

Roxane Gay is a novelist and sayist whose onle says you've probably had forward to you by someone you adore. Kira Cochrane The Guardian puts rrectly: "In prt, on Twter and person, Gay has the voice of the iend you ll first for advice, lm and sane as well as funny, someone who has seen a lot and tak no prisoners.".