Stephen Dunn Reading Series: Emily Van Duyne

Galloway, N.J. – Emily Van Duyne, associate professor of Writing and author of “Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation” (W.W. Norton & Co., 2024), will begin this fall’s season of the Stephen Dunn Reading Series on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 3:35 p.m.

The event will be hosted in the L-Wing Art Gallery and simulcasted via Zoom. Admission is free, and the public is welcome to attend. 


About Emily Van Duyne

A South Jersey native, Van Duyne is the recipient of research and creative writing fellowships from the Fulbright and Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundations, as well as from Emory University. With her colleagues Janet Badia and Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, she is co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath. 


About The Stephen Dunn Reading Series

Named after the late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and distinguished professor emeritus of Creative Writing, the series is sponsored by: Murphy Writing of Stockton University; the William T. Daly School of General Studies; The Literature program in the School of Arts & Humanities; and Board of Trustee member Madeleine Deininger, '80. 

Previous Speakers

2024

  • Emily August & Emily Van Duyne (faculty) and Liz Myers & Moheeba Khan (alumnae) 

2023

  • Marciela Guerrero  Poet, writer, teacher and International Visiting Writer in Residence for Fall 2023
  • Jordan Calhoun Author, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker
  • Jane WongAuthor, artist and poet
  • Dolen Perkins-ValdezNew York Times bestselling author
  • Nathan Long & Nancy Reddy (LITT faculty) and Michelle Servellon & Jenna Geisinger (alumnae) 

2022

  • Joshua CohenPulitzer Prize in Fiction winner