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Penn Reading Project Prep Session
The Penn Reading Project Prep Session for faculty and staff discussion leaders, will be held Thursday August 23rd at 12pm in Logan 17 and will last approximately 90 minutes. For anybody who cannot attend, the session will be recorded and link will be placed on this page as soon as the video is streaming online. |
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Thomas Devaney is a Penn Senior Writing Fellow in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches a popular Critical Writing class on food called Food for Thought. This fall he is also teaching a class entitled The Art of Eating. Devaney has also taught in the Creative Writing Program at Penn. He is the author of The American Pragmatist Fell in Love and his new collection of poetry (publication date September 1, 2007) is entitled A Series of Small Boxes. The article "Movable Feast: The pen and the platter" on Devaney's Food for Thought course was published in the Penn Current. His homepage can be found here. |
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Mary Summers is a Senior Fellow in the Fox Leadership Program and a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches academically based community service seminars on the politics of food and agriculture and the politics of poverty and development in the United States. She has written articles for The Nation, Urban Affairs Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, Agricultural History, and several edited volumes. |
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Stella Volpe is Miriam Stirl Term Associate Professor in Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a nutritionist and exercise physiologist with research interests in obesity prevention, body composition, bone mineral density, and mineral metabolism and exercise. She has recently begun researching the effects of environmental changes to prevent obesity, providing a "passive intervention" to avert the obesity epidemic occurring in the United States and throughout the world. |
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