Nancy Holmes Alumni Spotlight: Erin Scott, in conversation with Katya Kirschman
November 3 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
The Nancy Holmes Alumni Spotlight series is named in honour of Nancy Holmes, an internationally recognized artist, scholar, editor, community builder, and Professor Emerita in Creative Writing. Each year, an alum of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies working in the areas of ecological or socially engaged research is invited to present their work in conversation with current graduate students or faculty.
This event is free, accessible and open to the public.
In this talk, interdisciplinary artist-scholar Erin Scott (MFA ’18) will reflect on select projects such as her spoken word album and touring show NOT FUNNY, her participatory theatre MFA thesis show Truth or Consequences, and her most recent digital, video poetic exhibitions. She will be in conversation with MFA creative writing student Katya Kirschman.
About Nancy Holmes
Nancy Holmes is the author of six critically acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently, Arborophobia (University of Alberta Press, 2022) and the editor of the groundbreaking anthology, Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2009). Holmes is highly regarded in the areas of research-creation and interdisciplinary collaborations, including two large-scale, federally funded projects, the Eco Art Incubator (with UBC Associate Professor Denise Kenney) and Border Free Bees (with Dr. Cameron Cartiere, Emily Carr University of Art + Design). She has been recognized for her writing by The Malahat Review and Arc, and is the past winner of the Robert Kroetsch National Teaching Award. Holmes served in many roles at UBC, including Head of Creative Studies, MFA Program Coordinator, and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies.
