Franklin College Hosts Dustin M. Hoffman for Carlson-Stauffer Event
Franklin College will welcome Dustin M. Hoffman, Ph.D., to campus as the guest speaker in the Carlson-Stauffer Visiting Writer Series. Hoffman will perform a reading of his work on campus at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, April 14. The event will be held in Henderson Conference Room on the second floor of the Johnson Center for Fine Arts.
As the author of three books and more than 100 stories in journals, Hoffman masters his craft of storytelling in his own style. Much of his stories derive from the livelihoods of working people, which personally inspire him and hold universal importance. He is working on publishing his fourth collection of stories, titled Such a Good Man, with the University of Wisconsin Press, and he is teaching creative writing at Winthrop University in South Carolina. He received his MFA in fiction from Bowling Green State University and his doctorate in creative writing from Western Michigan University.
“Attendees of this event will have the chance to learn more about the current state of literary fiction and will also be entertained by Hoffman, who will read from his new book and answer questions about his life and work as a writer,” says Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing Katie Burpo, M.F.A.
The Carlson-Stauffer Visiting Writer Series is made possible through a grant from Indiana Humanities in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities. The series – previously known as the Creative Writing Reading Series – is now named in honor of two retired Franklin College English professors, Kathy Carlson and Emily Stauffer. The series is organized by Professor Burpo.