Fr. John Cavanaugh Series
Readings in the Humanities

Fisher’s English department is proud to honor our friend and former colleague Fr. John R. Cavanaugh by giving his name to this series. At the time of his death in 2007, Fr. Cavanaugh had been associated with St. John Fisher College for more than fifty years, including more than thirty as one of the stalwarts of the English department. He retired from active teaching in 1994, but never from his service to the College. Devoted to English Renaissance literature, Irish studies of all kinds, and good conversation, generous with his time and his good humor, Fr. Cavanaugh was an exacting and encouraging teacher whom students admired and remembered.

Spring 2008

Anne Panning, author of Super America: Stories, which won the 2006 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction will be visiting on Tuesday, April 8th. That evening, she will be giving a public reading.

Fall 2007

Richard Wakefield, the visiting poet, will read at 8 pm on Tuesday October 30 (in Wilson Formal Lounge).  He'll read new poems as well as those from East of Early Winters, his first published volume.

Spring 2007

Ben Fountain, winner of the 2007 PEN/ Hemingway Award, read from his book of short stories Brief Encounters with Che Guevara on March 28. The late Mary Hemingway, a member of PEN, founded the award in 1976 both to honor the memory of her husband, Ernest Hemingway, and to recognize distinguished first books of fiction. The award is funded by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, which has been administered by the Hemingway Society since 1987, and PEN New England. www.pen-ne.org/awards/hemingway_award.html