11-10-08 Week Eleven VWS Part Three

This was the first meeting for the next VWS series. We reviewed a number of promising authors who appeared good candidates for the next VWS. One interesting presentation was made by Rachel on a YA fiction writer. Her choice sparked a discussion on the selection of our visiting writers and how we can and/or should diversify are authors.

I found the suggestion a valuable one. As Prof. Row and students brought up many of the Degree Seeking students in the English department hope to continue on to teaching positions at the high school level. The VWS could expose these students to authors writing to a youth audience, something that future teachers could certainly utilize later in their career.

Our discussion made me start thinking about the limits of the VWS and how our class could stretch those precedents.