Suffolk University Welcomes Maxine Hong Kingston as Visiting Scholar, 2/9-11

The Suffolk University College of Arts & Sciences will again welcome award-winning author Maxine Hong Kingston, who will be in residence Feb. 9-11, 2011, through the College's Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Civic Discourse programs.
 
The 2011 Civic Discourse series, "Immigrants in America," presented in collaboration with the Boston Athenæum, will kick off with a conversation between Kingston and author Gish Jen. Their discussion will touch upon the unique challenges of being the daughters of immigrants and how family, language, identity and self-esteem, and discrimination have influenced their outlooks as Chinese-American writers. The talk will be moderated by Suffolk University Scholar-in-Residence James Carroll and will take place at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, at the University's C.Walsh Theatre.
 
The New England-area book launch for I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, Kingston's new book of poems and personal essays will take place the following night, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, at Suffolk's Modern Theatre. Kingston will speak about the book during this event, co-sponsored by the Chinese Historical Society of New England and the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies. Fred Marchant, distinguished poet and director of Suffolk's Creative Writing Program and Poetry Center, will join her.
 
Maxine Hong Kingston is a professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, and has contributed to the feminist movement with such works as The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts and China Men. 
 
Gish Jen is acclaimed for her short stories, including "Birthmates," and her novels, including Mona in the Promised Land and, most recently, World and Town.