Writers and Their World: Jewell Parker Rhodes

19th August 2009

Douglass’ Women: History and the Creative Imagination

Professor Jewell Parker Rhodes is the author of six novels; Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau, Magic City, Douglass’ Women, Voodoo Season and Yellow Moon.

She is also the Piper Endowed Chair and the Founding Artistic Director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. Her literary achievements include a Pulitzer Prize nomination, the American Book Award and the National Endowment of the Arts Award, among many others. Professor

Jewell Parker Rhodes’ visit is part of an exchange program between Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University and Centre for Postcolonial Writing at Monash University. Professor Rhodes’ Residency at Monash included:

At Monash University:

Writers and Their World Seminar Series
Douglass’ Women: History and the Creative Imagination
Wednesday, 19 August, 2009

At the Melbourne Writers Festival:

In Conversation Jewell Parker Rhodes
Chaired by Dr. Chandani Lokuge
Session sponsored by the Centre for Postcolonial Writing, Monash University
Saturday, 22 August, 2009