Carol Goodman

MONMOUTH, Ill. — Carol Goodman, a writer-in-residence at New York City’s Teachers & Writers Collaborative, will deliver the 22nd annual Bernice L. Fox Classics Lecture on March 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Whiteman-McMillan Highlander Room of Monmouth College’s Stockdale Center.

The lecture, entitled “A Classical Muse: Creative Writing and the Classics,” is free and open to the public.

The study of classics might seem like unusual preparation for a novelist, but it’s where Goodman says she found her muse. Her lecture will discuss how studying Latin as an undergraduate at Vassar College gave her the discipline, language skills and subject matter to write her first novel, and how classical myth and literature have continued to be a source of inspiration in her writing,

After graduating from Vassar, she taught Latin for several years in Austin, Texas. She then received an MFA in fiction from the New School University and is the author of “The Lake of Dead Languages (Ballantine, 2003). Her work has appeared in such journals as The Greensboro Review, Literal Latté, The Midwest Quarterly and Other Voices.

Established in 1985, the lecture honors the late Bernice L. Fox, who taught classics at Monmouth from 1947 until 1981. The goal of this series is to illustrate the continuing importance of classical studies in the modern world and the intersection of the classics with other disciplines in the liberal arts.

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