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Contents:

• ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY JOS UNIVERSY AS VISG PROFSOR
• YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO YALE TO TAKE A WRG CLASS FROM ROXANE GAY
• AUTHOR ROXANE GAY TO GIVE CONVOTN ADDRS MAY 28
• ROXANE GAY DAR CLASS OF ’21 TO NURTURE BIG DREAMS
• APPLITNS BEG ACCEPTED FOR WGSS 399, WRG TRMA, ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY READG & CONVERSATN
• ROXANE GAY APPOTED GLORIA STEEM ENDOWED CHAIR MEDIA, CULTURE AND FEMIST STUDI
• ROXANE GAY JOS MASTERCLASS TO TEACH WRG FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
• WRG TRMA: A PANEL DISCSN CONCEPTUALIZED BY ROXANE GAY, RERDG AVAILABLE!
• APPLITN: WRG TRMA, ROXANE GAY (SPRG 2019)

ROXANE GAY

About Roxanne Gay. Roxane Gay is an thor and cultural cric whose wrg is unmatched and wily revered. She also pens the “work iend” advice lumn for the New York Tim, and 2021 she began her own publishg imprt wh Grove Atlantic, “Roxane Gay Books.

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. 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.

ROXANE GAY JOS UNIVERSY AS VISG PROFSOR

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

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

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.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO YALE TO TAKE A WRG CLASS FROM ROXANE GAY

If you've been payg any attentn to the lerary world — or Twter — recent years, you'll know that wrer and cultural cric Roxane Gay is leadg some of the most provotive, paradigm-shiftg, and entertag nversatns of our time. "Gay has joed forc wh the learng platform MasterClass to offer a urse on wrg for social change, which featur practil advice on mon stggl like wrer's block and advice on what tak to wre urageoly. (All of the lsons, of urse, are livered wh Gay's signature dry charm.

) We ught up wh Gay as her MasterClass buted to talk about the young wrers she admir right now and the work of elevatg unrreprented voic.

Roxane Gay: Well, tradnally when we look to experts — culturally — we're lookg to heterosexual, middle-class whe men. Gay '10, they're all a realy. 2010, Gay served as assistant profsor of English at Eastern Illois Universy.

AUTHOR ROXANE GAY TO GIVE CONVOTN ADDRS MAY 28

In Hunger, subtled A Memoir of (My) Body, Gay wrote about her stggl wh weight, health,. Gay has been published dozens of tim om short stori to novels, fictn to nonfictn,.

For Marvel Comics' Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Gay and fellow wrer Yona Harvey. Born Omaha, Nebraska, Gay has traveled the world for speakg engagements and appearanc.

Gay has several books forthg as well as televisn and film projects the works. Author and cultural cric Roxane Gay – whose wrg explor femism, race, body image, her own life, ntemporary social topics and fictn – will be the Cornell Senr Convotn speaker for the 153rd graduatg class, the Convotn Commtee for the universy’s Class of 2021 announced May 13.

ROXANE GAY DAR CLASS OF ’21 TO NURTURE BIG DREAMS

Gay will give the virtual Convotn addrs on Friday, May 28 at 8:30 p.

APPLITNS BEG ACCEPTED FOR WGSS 399, WRG TRMA, ROXANE GAY

Gay, mtee members said, blends those attribut.

“Roxane Gay has reached great heights beg te to her own story and exprsg her own voice. Sarah Brice ’21, a public relatns chair on the mtee, said Gay’s batn of spiratn and very ma her a strong choice. Gay is a ntributor to The New York Tim and a visg profsor at Yale Universy.

ROXANE GAY READG & CONVERSATN

Gay’s first novel, “An Untamed State” (2014), tells the story of a Haian-Amerin woman (like Gay) who surviv kidnappg. ” That same year, “Bad Femist, ” a llectn of Gay’s says, beme a New York Tim btseller. In 2016, Gay wrote Marvel Comics’ “Black Panther: World of Wakanda.

“At s simplt, ’s a memoir about beg fat – Gay’s preferred term – a hostile, fat-phobic world, ” reviewer Cara Chono wrote the New York Tim. Gay earned her bachelor’s gree at Norwich Universy Vermont; a master’s gree at the Universy of Nebraska; and a doctorate at Michigan Technologil Universy. “The Class of 2021 is diverse inty, background, experience – and we believe the graduat will be energized by Roxane Gay.

ROXANE GAY APPOTED GLORIA STEEM ENDOWED CHAIR MEDIA, CULTURE AND FEMIST STUDI

In a rerd Convotn addrs, thor and social mentator Roxane Gay challenged the Cornell Class of 2021 to be te to themselv and to their dreams, however wild they may be.

“As you walk to the unknown of the rt of your life, please tear down the borrs around your imagatn and what you believe is possible for yourself and for your muny, ” Gay said.

Gay, a New York Tim ntributg opn wrer and visg profsor at Yale Universy, is the thor of “Bad Femist” (2014), the New York Tim btsellg say llectn, as well as the 2014 novel “An Untamed State” and her 2017 memoir, “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. ” She recently began her own publishg imprt, Roxane Gay Books, wh publisher Grove Atlantic. Gay’s addrs to the senr class touched on her childhood; on her termatn to be a wrer the face of nstant rejectn and doubts; on the reali of “a flawed and unjt world” that rewards the medcry of the majory and punish the margalized; and on her hop for the graduatg class.

ROXANE GAY JOS MASTERCLASS TO TEACH WRG FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

Gay began her remarks by rellg her lifelong sire to be a wrer, even when enuragement and validatn were short supply. Hollars, Roxane Gay!, Marcia Aldrich, Ryan Van Meter, Bonnie J. Women’s, Genr, and Sexualy Studi is exced to wele Visg Profsor Roxane Gay for Sprg 2019.

WRG TRMA: A PANEL DISCSN CONCEPTUALIZED BY ROXANE GAY, RERDG AVAILABLE!

Profsor Gay will be teachg an unrgraduate wrg workshop, WGSS 399, Wrg Trma, wh Associate Teachg Cera Smh (WGSS/AFAM/ENGL). Roxane Gay. Profsor Gay is a proment wrer and Associate Profsor of English at Purdue Universy.

APPLITN: WRG TRMA, ROXANE GAY (SPRG 2019)

Roxane Gay’s wrg appears Bt Amerin Mystery Stori 2014, Bt Amerin Short Stori 2012, Bt Sex Wrg 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, T Hoe, Oxford Amerin, Amerin Short Fictn, Virgia Quarterly Review, and many others. Event scriptn: Jo for an eveng wh Roxane Gay as she reads selectns om her work. Roxane Gay is a proment wrer and a journalist and thor on femism, race, genr, and their tersectns.