CONTACT: Susan Breakenridge, 515-271-3994, susan.breakenridge@drake.edu
Drake University’s Cowles Library recently launched its Midweek Muses and Munchies series that will begin on Tuesday, June 9. The
initiative aims to promote discussion and discourse related to books and
various academic topics.
Lee Jolliffe, associate professor of journalism, will kick
off the series with a talk on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The events, which are free and open to the public, will
begin at 12:10 p.m. by Cowles Café outside of room 122 in Cowles Library, 28thStreet and University Ave.
Participants can bring their own lunches or purchase food
from the café or the grill outside the library’s main entrance.
The rest of the Midweek Muses and Munchies schedule is
below:
- June
10 — “Graphic Novels”: Part I — Sean
Stone, assistant professor of librarianship and pharmacy science librarian
- June
11 — “Graphic Novels”: Part II — Sean
Stone, assistant professor of librarianship and pharmacy science librarian - June
16 — “Dead Sea Scrolls”: Part II —
Lee Jolliffe, associate professor of journalism - June
17 — TBA - June
18 — “1950s Hollywood”: Part I — Dina
Smith, assistant professor of English - June
23 — “Books as Art” — Mireille
Djenno, assistant professor of librarianship and first-year experience
librarian - June
24 — “Dyslexia and Reading Struggles” — Anne Murr, Adult Literacy Center coordinator - June
25 — “1950s Hollywood”: Part II —
Dina Smith, assistant professor of English - June
30 — TBA - July
1 — TBA — Elizabeth West, assistant
professor of English - July
2 – “Women in Horror Films”: Part I —
Beth Younger, associate professor of English - July
7 — “Cataloging History” – Dorothy
Pisarski, assistant professor of journalism, and Drake student Chad Allen - July
8 — TBA — Elizabeth West, assistant
professor of English - July
9 — “Women in Horror Films”: Part II
— Beth Younger, associate professor of English - July
22 – “Pet-Themed Books” — Marcia
Keyser, coordinator of information services and associate professor of
librarianship
For more information about the series, contact Susan
Breakenridge at 515-271-3994 or susan.breakenridge@drake.edu.
Read more about the series online.