The Buckner Lecture Series was established by Charles F. Green, III,
to provide funding to bring distinguished guest presenters to UNCW
and in honor of his friend, Katherine K. Buckner.

In Honor of Katherine K. Buckner 

Katherine K. Buckner, a graduate of Randolph Macon College in Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has led a distinguished career in the field of family counseling, including a position as Director of Family Services in Durham, North Carolina.  Mrs. Buckner has served as an interdenominational counselor for over thirty years, giving invaluable time and resources for the betterment of her community.

Endowed by Charles F. Green, III

Charles F. Green, III is an alumnus of UNCW, class of 1971.  His generosity has made it possible for the English Department to bring in prominent guest lecturers and writers.  Mr. Green also endows two graduate fellowships: the Alton Yates Lennon Graduate Fellowship and the Philip Gerard Graduate Fellowship.  He also supports under-graduate English students by endowing the Anne Green Sans and the Louise Jackson Green Scholarships.

For further Information, please contact the UNCW Buckner Committee
at 910-962-3320

Upcoming Events
2007-2008

The Katherine Buckner Lecture Series
and The Department of English at UNCW
 Present

Coming Soon...

This talk is free and open to the public.  For further information, please contact the
UNCW Department of English at (910) 962-3320.

Accommodations for disabilities may be made by
calling (910) 962-3500 three days prior to the event.

2006-2007

Cecelia Tichi, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, spoke at UNCW on "Betting the House: The Home Front in Today's U.S. Fiction"

John Schilb, Culbertson Chair of Writing and Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, spoke at UNCW on "Race, Nation, Memory, Refusal: Frederick Douglass Dedicates a Monument."

2005-2006

John Paul Eakin, Ruth N. Halls Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University, spoke at UNCW on "Talking About Ourselves: Autobiography, Narrative Identity, and Everyday Life."

2004-2005

Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, spoke at UNCW about "Eccentric Women."

Susan Gubar, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Indiana spoke at UNCW on "In Rooms of Our Own."

William D. Lutz, a lawyer and an English professor at Rutgers University
spoke at UNCW on "Doublespeak, Public Discourse, and the
Condition of the Body Politic."

2003-2004

Christopher Ricks, Professor of Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University.  He is the author of ten books including Dylan's Visions of Sin, Allusion to the Poets and Reviewery spoke on "Poetry and Pain"

Daniel Robb, Author of Crossing the Water , addressed the question:  What makes it easy for most of us to obey the rules and what makes it almost impossible for others to do so?

2002-2003

Sara Suleri Goodyear, Professor of English at Yale University, lectured on "Reconstructing Postcolonial Memory: Gender's Parting of the Ways"

Catherine Lutz, Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, lectured in "Making War at Home: War's Wages in Fayetteville, NC"

2000-2001

James Nagel, J. O. Eidson Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia, lectured on "Hemingway: The True Story behind A Farewell to Arms." Reception and book signing followed.

Matthew Bruccoli, English Professor at the University of South Carolina, lectured on "Writing About Writers: Experiences as a Literary Biographer." Reception and book signing followed.

Mark Boren, Lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington read from his book Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject.

Janet Ellerby, Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, read from her book Intimate Reading: The Contemporary Women's Memoir.

1999-2000

Claudia Tate, Professor of English at Princeton University lectured on "The Enigma of Black Femininity." 

Dr. Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Professor at Duke University met with the Feminist Colloquium to examine her first book, Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape.

Dr. Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Author of Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape and Professor at Duke University spoke.  Reception and book signing will followed.

Alison Lurie Pulitzer Prize-Winning author and Spring 1999 Visiting Writer-in Residence, presented a reading.  

Houston Baker, director of the Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting lecturer at Duke University, lectured on April 16, 8 PM.

Novelist John Holman presented a reading.

Mystery Writer Tony Hillerman read.  Reception and book signing followed.

The Tarwater Band performed a concert.  The band played a mix of blues, bluegrass, country and gospel.

Professors Michael White and Dennis Sampson gave a poetry reading. 

1998-1999

Clyde Edgerton, Visiting Distinguished Professor at UNCW, presented a reading with interludes of music.  Reception and book signing followed.

Wendy Brenner, fiction. UNCW professor Brenner's 1996 book of stories, Large Animals in Everyday Life, won the Flannery O'Connor Award.  She received the Henfield AWP Intro awards for her short stories.  Her works have appeared in many journals, including Story and Mississippi Review.

Rebecca Lee, fiction.   UNCW professor Lee, winner of the Rona Jaffe Award for Fiction, published her short story, "The Banks of Vistula," in the Atlantic Monthly.  This story was performed on National Public Radio's 1997 "Selected Shorts."

Jorie Graham, Poet.   Author of seven volumes of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-Winning collection The Dream of the Unified Field.

1997-1998

John Shelton Reed, Professor of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill.  Author of Whistling Dixie and 1001 Things Everybody Should Know About the South.

Mark Strand, Poet.   Author of eight poetry books.  Recipient of MacArthur Fellowship and Bollingen Prize.  Poet Laureate of the United States, 1993-94.

Philip Levine, Poet. UNCW Visiting Writer-in-Residence, Spring 1998.  Winner of two National Book Awards, and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for The Simple Truth.

William McCranor Henderson, Novelist.  Author of I, Elvis: Confessions of a Counterfeit King.  He is also an acclaimed Elvis impersonator and, with his band, performed as Elvis.

Alice Fulton, Poet.   Fall 1997 Visiting Writer-in-Residence.  Author of Sensual Math.   Recipient of a MacArthur Award.

1996-1997

W.O.S. Sutherland, Professor of English at the University of Texas-Austin.   Recipient of the Press Associates' Teaching Award.

David Bevington, Professor of English at University of Chicago.  Recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships.

1995-1996

Kaye Gibbons, Novelist.  Author of A Virtuous Woman and Ellen Foster, both selections for Oprah Winfrey's Book Club.

1994-1995

Jane Tompkins, Professor of English at Duke University.  Author of West of Everything and A Life in School:  What Teachers Learned.