Adjunct Faculty Featured at Annual Reading

On Thursday, September 24, seven Keene State adjuncts (Jack Bouley, Catherine Cadieux, Tracy Botting, Lorianne DiSabato, Anthony Dubois, Linda Aldrich, and Jeff Friedman) will read stories, poems, essays, and other pieces at the Second Annual Adjunct Faculty Reading at 4 p.m. in the Mountain View Room.

• Jack Bouley teaches Native American and multicultural studies, early 1900s American literature, composition, and rhetorical studies at Keene State.
• Catherine Aiken Cadieux has been a lecturer in communications at Keene State College since fall, 2000. She earned degrees from Lyndon State College and Yale Divinity School (with a year at McGill University thrown in).
• Tracy Botting teaches American regional fiction, women’s literature, fiction writing, Native American literature, memoir, and biography at Keene State.****
• Lorianne DiSabato is an English instructor at Keene State and teaches online writing and literature courses for Southern New Hampshire University. She received her masters degree from Boston College, and her doctorate in English literature from Northeastern University, where she completed a PhD dissertation on spirituality of place in 19th and 20th century nature writing. A long-time journal-keeper, Lorianne also likes to write short essays, including her weblog, Hoarded Ordinaries, which showcases both her writing and digital photography.
• Tony Dubois has taught English and American studies for 30 years at Keene High School and for 15 years at Keene State. He earned a BA from Middlebury College and a MALS from Keene State. He is an advisor to the KSC Fishing Club and enjoys hiking, local/regional history, gardening, and politics.
• Linda Aldrich has a BA in English and French from the University of New Hampshire, an MA in Theatre Arts from Florida State University, and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Her poetry chapbook, Foothold, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2008. Her poem “Enfoldment” was featured in Natasha Saje’s article, “Narrative and Poetry” in the September 2008 Writer’s Chronicle, and her poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Cimarron Review, Elixir, The Denver Quarterly, Ellipsis, The Florida Review, Poet Lore, Third Coast, and Puerto del Sol. Her poem “Woman-without-Arms” won the Emily Dickinson Award 2000 from Universities West Press.
• Jeff Friedman’s fourth collection of poetry, Black Threads, was recently published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The New Republic, and many other literary journals. He is a core faculty member in the MFA program in poetry writing at New England College.

For more information about the reading, contact Jeff Friedman (8-7777, ext. 4135).