Dr. Elizabeth Crews will present the 2021 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Blue Mountain College: In the fall, Dr. Elizabeth Crews taught a memoir class for the Union County Heritage Museum, and this semester she is teaching a course on Mississippi writers. Dr. Crews’s talk will focus on four female Mississippi authors: two black authors and two white. The presentation will include Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi, Elizabeth Spencer’s Landscapes of the Heart, Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped, and Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings. These memoirs span over a hundred years of the lives of Mississippi women, white and black, and give insight into the ways in which growing up and living in Mississippi has shaped both their lives and their writing.
The presentation will take place on the Blue Mountain College campus, at Garrett Auditorium.
