Joanna Scott teaches at the University of Rochester and is the author of the novels Fading, My Parmacheene Belle; The Closest Possible Union, Arrogance, The Manikin; and Make Believe; and the story collection Various Antidotes. She has received numerous honors for her writing, including Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation fellowships (the latter in 1993 at the age of 31), the Rosenthal Award from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and most recently a Lannan fellowship. She has been a finalist for the prestigious Pen/Faulkner Award twice (for Arrogance and Various Antidotes) and was selected as a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for The Manikin. Her stories have been included in Best American Stories, and in 1992 she won the Aga Khan Award from The Paris Review for her story "A Borderline Case." Her fiction plays with ideas of history, women's roles, and the ways in which unreliable narration is perhaps the best way to tell a story (or at least the most interesting). Her new novel is Tourmaline (read an excerpt).

A Reading by Joanna Scott

7:30 p.m, Tuesday 15 October
Newcomb Chapel

A reception & booksigning will follow in the atrium of the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Caroline Richardson Hall


An Interview with Joanna Scott
Conducted by Josh Russell, Tulane Department of English, and author of Yellow Jack

7:30 p.m., Thursday 17 October
Anna E. Many Lounge, 2nd floor, Caroline Richardson Hall


Reading Like A Writer: Joanna Scott on W.G. Sebald
3:30 p.m., Friday 18 October
Anna E. Many Lounge, 2nd floor, Caroline Richardson Hall

Invited to dissect a piece of contemporary literature fascinating to her, Scott has chosen the brief first chapter of W.G Sebald’s novel Austerlitz, also available on reserve at Howard-Tilton Library, at the Nadine Vorhoff Library, and in the Tulane English Department. Please read the chapter in advance if you plan to attend this event.


The Zale Writer-in-Residence events listed above are free and open to the public. For additional information, contact the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women @ 504 865 5238

Those among you unfamiliar with the Tulane campus may find this map useful. After seven p.m., visitors without Tulane parking permits may park anywhere on campus (excepting reserved spaces and handicapped-only spaces).