The Joynes Literary Series at UT Austin kicks off next week with a talk by guest lecturer Amy Gentry, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17th. This event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Gentry has been a regular book reviewer for the Chicago Tribune since 2013. Her essays and criticism have been published by Salon, the Texas Observer, The Rumpus, LA Review of Books, Gastronomica, and the Austin Chronicle. Her current projects include reporting on women’s issues for Texas Monthly, guest-curating the Awst Press fall chapbook series, and working on a novel about the idea of the “good victim.” She graduated from the UT Plan II Honors Program in 2001 and obtained her doctorate in English from the University of Chicago in 2011. The title of her Joynes lecture is “Trigger Warning: Violence and Sexual Agency in Contemporary Fiction.”

Other Joynes events this fall will include:

Sept. 18th: Poets Heather Christle and Chris Deweese
October 6th: Novelist Mat Johnson
October 22nd: Bob Dylan and the History of Rock n Roll, with writer Michael Gray
October 27th: Novelist Dinaw Mengestu
November 6th: Poets Suzanne Buffam and Srikanth Reddy

The Joynes Reading Room is located on the east side of the Carothers Building at 2501 Whitis Avenue on the University of Texas Campus. For more information, call 512-471-5787 or visit us on Facebook.