Will Richards helped in collecting the data and with the multimedia A study at a French and US university showed that students when evaluating professors are biased toward their female teachers. As NPR reported, the French students rated the male teacher better across the board although on the final exam those taught by male teachers scored lower. In […]
American journalist and nonfiction writer Rick Bragg
American journalist and nonfiction writer Rick Bragg will be speaking at the Spring Literary Festival on April 7 at 4 p.m. in the UC Theater. He will be reading from a few of his memoirs and speaking about his time as a journalist. Bragg was born in the small city of Piedmont, Alabama, and grew […]
Local poet and novelist Darnell Arnoult
Poet and novelist Darnell Arnoult will be joining us at the Spring Literary Festival on April 6, at 4 p.m. in the UC Theater and she will be reading from her collection of poems titled What Travels With Us and her fiction novel Sufficient Grace. Arnoult was born and raised in Henry County, Virginia, but […]
Puerto Rican-American writer Judith Ortiz Cofer
Latina poet, fiction and nonfiction writer Judith Ortiz Cofer, will be speaking on Tuesday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the UC Theater as part of the WCU Spring Literary Festival. She will be touching on her stories about coming-of-age experiences in Puerto Rican communities outside of New York City and her poems and essays […]