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DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the Levan Institute for the Humanities' 
 “On Writing” series\, conversations aiming to answer questions about h
 ow writing matters\, now. This conversation will feature V.V. Ganeshananth
 an (University of Minnesota) and Kate Levin (USC)\, hosted by Sarah Mesle 
 (USC). Organized in partnership with the Consortium for Gender\, Sexuality
 \, Race and Public Culture. Registration is required. REGISTER\n\n \n\nDes
 cription: What knowledge\, what artistry\, can a sentence hold? Whose rule
 s must it follow? What kinds of personhood can it express\, and how? How d
 oes genre shape what a sentence can be? This event brings together two pro
 fessors and activists who have considered how to craft sentences that brid
 ge the gap between creative and researched writing. We’ll talk about sen
 tences we love\, sentences we’re proud of\, and sentences that changed w
 hat we think a sentence can do. But we’ll also consider “sentence” i
 n a different\, juridical\, sense — as a judgement\, a punishment. We’
 ll ask: how does remembering the double meaning of “sentence” help us 
 see the overlap between our writing lives and our obligations to justice i
 n the world? \n\nV. V. Ganeshananthan (she/her) is the author of the novel
 s Brotherless Night (winner of the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction\, the 20
 24 Carol Shields Prize\, the 2023 Asian Prize\, a New York Times Editors
 ’ Choice\, and an NPR Book of the Year) and Love Marriage (longlisted fo
 r the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The Was
 hington Post). Her work has appeared in Granta\, The New York Times\, and 
 The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, among other publications. She teac
 hes in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota\, where she is a McK
 night Presidential Fellow and professor of English. Since 2017\, she has c
 o-hosted Literary Hub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast\, which is about the
  intersection of literature and the news.\n\n \n\nKate Levin is Associate 
 Professor (Teaching) of Writing at the University of Southern California\,
  where she is co-founder and co-director of the Dornsife Prison Education 
 Project. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michi
 gan\, and is the winner of a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been published i
 n The New York Times\, the Boston Globe\, the Nation\, and a variety of li
 terary journals.\n\n \n\nOpen to attendants outside of USC. Registration b
 efore the event is required. To see more events in this series\, including
  recordings of past events\, visit https://dornsife.usc.edu/levan-institut
 e/programs/on-writing/.
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