Marilynne Robinson, Person-in-Residence
Boston University’s guest in Conversations in the Arts & Ideas, and Kilachand Honors College’s Person-In-Residence this Spring is the renowned novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson.
Marilynne Robinson is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for “her grace and intelligence in writing.” She is the author of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. In 2021, all four Gilead novels were selected for Oprah’s Book Club. Robinson’s nonfiction books include What Are We Doing Here?, The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country.
Browse the drop down boxes below to learn more about each event. The lecture event on Tuesday evening is open to the public, while the coffee on Wednesday morning is reserved for the BU community only.
An Evening with Marilynne Robinson
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 @ 6:30 pm
Doors will open at 6 pm
Location: BU Photonics Center, 2nd floor, Room 206
(8 St Mary’s St, Boston, MA 02215)
Event Description: BU’s Conversations in the Arts & Ideas presents “An Evening with Marilynne Robinson.”The renowned novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson joins Reverend Dr. Robert Allan Hill for a public conversation about her life and work.
This event is sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, Kilachand Honors College, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs, Dean of Arts & Sciences, BU Arts Initiative, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, CAS Core Curriculum, Dean of the School of Theology, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship, CAS Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Humanities.
Register for Event: Admission is free; a reservation will ensure a place: RobinsonBU.eventbrite.com. Registration opens on Monday, March 13, 2023.
Attendance: (For Kilachand Honors College Students) You must register for this event in advance. Please use promo code KHC23 when registering. At the event a QR will be posted for you to check-in. You must check-in immediately following the event to earn co-curricular attendance credit for this event. This event counts as one co-curricular.
Student Coffee and Discussion with Marilynne Robinson
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 @ 10 am
*Please arrive early to ensure that everyone has time to get coffee and pastries before the event begins.
Location: Kilachand Hall Commons, Room 101
(91 Bay State Rd, Boston, MA 02215)
Event Description: Join the renowned novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson for discussion and Q&A over coffee and pastries.
Attendance: (For Kilachand Honors College Students) At the event a QR will be posted for you to check-in. You must check-in immediately following the event to earn co-curricular attendance credit for this event. This event counts as one co-curricular.
