Lucky Mud & Other Foma: Book Signing with Christina Jarvis
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Nov 12, 2022 12pm - 1pm
Location
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial & Library
543 Indiana Avenue
Details
Join us for the release of Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut's Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship by Christina Jarvis. Lucky Mud & Other Foma tells the story of the origins and legacy of what Kurt Vonnegut understood as “planetary citizenship” and explores key roots, influences, literary techniques, and artistic expressions of his interest in environmental activism through his writing.
We'll celebrate with a Q&A session and talk with Christina from 12 - 12:30 p.m followed by a book signing. You will have exclusive access to Lucky Mud & Other Foma prior to its official release on November 15th!
Christina Jarvis is Professor of English at State University of New York at Fredonia, where she teaches courses in sustainability and twentieth-century American literature and culture, including several major author seminars on Kurt Vonnegut. She is the author of The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II, and has published in journals such as Women’s Studies, The Southern Quarterly, The Journal of Men’s Studies, and War, Literature, and the Arts. She lives near the shores of Lake Erie in Western New York.
