BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – On Saturday, Sept. 25, Illinois Wesleyan University will provide 13 students from four universities with the opportunity to present undergraduate work in literature during the sixth annual MUSE Undergraduate Literature Conference. The event will begin with registration at 8:30 a.m. and the first of two sessions to begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Center for Natural Science (CNS) (201 Beecher St., Bloomington).
Sponsored by the Alpha Eta Pi chapter of the international English honor society Sigma Tau Delta (STD) with the assistance of IWU’s Department of English, the conference will consists of two undergraduate sessions, an address by keynote speaker Srikanth Reddy and a panel of English graduates speaking on a variety of topics.
Reddy, an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago, received his master’s degree from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He has been featured in a number of publications such as the Chicago Tribune and American Literature, working primarily in the field of poetry and poetics. “I am particularly interested in the intersection of critical and creative practice and the institutional history that has come to segregate these endeavors,” said Reddy, who teaches creative writing workshops and literature seminars.