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X-WR-CALNAME:Betty Jean Craige Lecture: Charles Johnson
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DESCRIPTION:This event is presented as the Department of Comparative Litera
 ture and Intercultural Studies’s annual Betty Jean Craige Lecture\, co-s
 ponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the UGA Humanit
 ies Council as part of the university's 2025 Humanities Festival and the W
 illson Center's Global Georgia public events series. Author Charles Johnso
 n will read from his work\, then take part in a conversation with Hyangsoo
 n Yi\, professor of comparative literature and intercultural studies\, and
  Caroline Medine\, All Shall Be Well Professor in Religion and director of
  the Institute for African American Studies.\n\nThe Betty Jean Craige Lect
 ure honors Craige\, University Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature
  and a former director of the Willson Center. The Institute for African Am
 erican Studies\, the department of English\, and the Creative Writing Prog
 ram are also co-presenters of the event.\n\nCharles Johnson is the author 
 of 27 books\, among them the novels Middle Passage\, Oxherding Tale\, Fait
 h and the Good Thing\, and Dreamer\; the story collections The Sorcerer's 
 Apprentice (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner award)\, Soulcatcher and Other St
 ories\, and Dr. King's Refrigerator and Other Bedtime Stories\; and works 
 of philosophy and criticism such as Being and Race: Black Writing Since 19
 70 and Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing.\n\nHe is also a 
 screenwriter\, essayist\, professional cartoonist\, international lecturer
 \, and for 20 years served as fiction editor of Seattle Review. He receive
 d the 1990 National Book Award (fiction) for Middle Passage\, NEA and Gugg
 enheim fellowships\, a Writers Guild Award for his PBS drama "Booker\," tw
 o Washington State Governor's Awards for literature\, the Academy Award fo
 r Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and numerous 
 other prizes and honorary degrees. In 1998 he received a John D. and Cathe
 rine T. MacArthur Fellowship ("genius" grant)\, and in 2003 literary schol
 ars founded the Charles Johnson Society at the American Literature Associa
 tion.\n\nJohnson is Pollock Professor Emeritus of English at the Universit
 y of Washington.
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SUMMARY:Betty Jean Craige Lecture: Charles Johnson
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