The Association of Marshall Scholars, with Denison University’s Narrative Journalism program and the New York University Journalism Department’s Literary Reportage program are pleased to invite you to join the Marshall Arts and Humanities Series webcast conversation on Immersion Journalism featuring:

Award winning author and journalist Ted Conover (1982)

in dialogue with

Director of the Eisner Center for the Performing Arts Margot Singer (1984)

Speakers

Ted Conover (1982) is best-known for Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, an account of his ten months spent working as a corrections officer at New York’s Sing Sing prison. Newjack won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Conover’s other books include Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes, Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America’s Mexican Migrants, Whiteout, The Routes of Man, and most recently, Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep. Conover is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Amherst and of a Guggenheim Fellowship; he has also taught at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He writes for the New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, and other publications and has told several stories for The Moth. Conover is a professor at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

Margot Singer (1984) is a Professor of English and the Director of the Eisner Center for the Performing Arts at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. She is author of the novel Underground Fugue (2017), winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Fiction; the short story collection The Pale of Settlement (2007), winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction; and co-editor of Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction (2013).

Questions may be submitted in advance : events@marshallscholars.org

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