A List 1/26/04 AUTHOR DIONNE BRAND IN SLU WRITERS SERIES CANTON – St. Lawrence University Visiting Distinguished Scholar and Writer-in-Residence Dionne Brand will read from her recent works in an appearance on Thursday, January 29, at 8 p.m. in Eben Holden on campus, as part of the St. Lawrence Writers Series. The event is open to the public, free of charge. Brand's world view is expressed in books, film and social activism. She has published books on racism and on Black women's history in Canada, as well as a collection of stories, Sans Souci and Other Stories. Her first novel, In Another Place, Not Here, was published to widespread acclaim in 1996. Brand has also edited anthologies, reports and magazines. Her stories and poems have appeared in many literary magazines and in over a dozen anthologies, and Brand's work is featured in American women's studies and Black studies courses at many colleges. She was born in Trinidad, and has lived in Canada since 1970. She attended the University of Toronto, where she earned a B.A. in English and philosophy and an M.A. in the philosophy of education, and worked on a Ph.D. in women's history. Brand has taught English literature and creative writing at Guelph, York and Toronto universities, and has been writer-in-residence both at the University of Toronto and at the Halifax City Regional Library. Since 1989, she has directed four documentary films for the National Film Board of Canada: Listening for Something – Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation; Long Time Comin', about two Black women artists; Sisters in the Struggle, about Black women activists fighting racism and sexism; and Older, Stronger, Wiser, five portraits of older Black Canadian women. Brand's most recent novel, At the Full Change of the Moon, about a 19th-century Caribbean slave and her modern-day descendants all over the world, was published in 1999. For more information, contact the English department at 315-229-5125.-30- Back To News Releases Back to St. Lawrence Homepage