NOTE: This event has been cancelled.
Professor Helen Morales is unable to travel to Madison and this workshop has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this for a future date and we will share an update soon.
Are you interested in exploring opportunities for public scholarship? Students, faculty, and staff are invited to this informal, small-group conversation with visiting Professor Helen Morales (UC Santa Barbara), moderated by Professor Alex Dressler (Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies). Morales is the author of Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee (University of Chicago Press), which is “for anyone with an old country soul who relies on music to help understand the world.” Times Higher Education writes, “Part quirky travelogue, part study of celebrity culture, part autobiography, Pilgrimage to Dollywood is a witty and self-aware account of being transplanted into an alien culture and deciding to revel in its (and one’s own) otherness.” We’ll discuss Morales’ vision for the book, her research and writing process, and what lessons she’s learned about writing for a broad audience. The conversation is informal; please bring your own questions or thoughts about writing for audiences beyond academia and leveraging academic training and skills for public humanities projects. Light refreshments will be provided.
Seats are limited and registration is required. To join, please email rsvp@humanities.wisc.edu with your name and affiliation.
Helen Morales is Argyropoulos Professor of Hellenic Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her most recent book is Antigone Rising: the Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths. In 2022 she was lead curator of the exhibition Harmonia Rosales: Entwined.
