October Fettuccine Forum Series Presents “On Being Well: Literature in Sickness and in Health”

October Fettuccine Forum Series Presents
"On Being Well: Literature in Sickness and in Health"

The Fettuccine Forum is proud to present Dr. Cheryl Hindrichs as the featured speaker October 6, at the opening session of the 2011-2012 Forum Season.

Writer Virginia Woolf once asked: Why isn't illness, one of the most common and most profound of our life experiences, considered one of the prime themes of literature, like war, love, and jealousy? In exploring this question, Cheryl Hindrichs will consider how the challenges of illness can function in ways that parallel the activity of reading challenging literature. One's experience of illness, and meditating on that experience through art, can reveal startling new perspectives-on one's sense of identity, purpose, and desires. Rather than a tunnel into darkness, illness in literature offers us portals to discovery. Bring a friend and join us!

Cheryl Hindrichs holds a (B.A. from Truman State University; M.A. in English and M.A. in Women's Studies, Ph.D. in Literature, The Ohio State University) is an associate professor of English, teaching primarily twentieth-century British literature and literary criticism and theory. She has published articles on Virginia Woolf, H.D., and Germaine Dulac, as well as late modernist literature, gender and film studies. Her current research focuses on the role of illness in the aesthetics and ethics of modernist fiction. Cheryl Hindrichs has an interest in literature and food, is an avid baker, as well as an interest in the relationship between writing/thinking and walking.

The Fettuccine Forum is a free public lecture series on six First Thursdays throughout the academic year.

When and Where:

- October 6, 2011: Doors open at 5:00 p.m. and the presentation begins at 5:30 p.m.
- RoseRoom, in downtown Boise's historic Union Block, 718 W. Idaho Street
- Food available for sale by Simply Pizza
- Beverages, for a cost, are provided by Jo's Traveling Bar

The Fettuccine Forum is produced by the Boise City Department of Arts & History. This season the Forum is sponsored by the Idaho Humanities Council with support from the Office of the Mayor, Boise State Public Radio, Platform Architecture-Design, TAG Historical Research, Preservation Idaho, Idaho State Historical Society, Trademark Sign, and Landmark Impressions.

Lively and informal, the Fettucine Forum invites the public to interact with politicians, artists, historians, activists, advocates and professionals in an effort to promote good citizenship and responsible growth through education.

The Forum includes a companion workshop, offered by Boise State University for graduate and undergraduate credit. For more information contact Todd Shallat at tshalla@boisestate.edu