Dr. Brenda Flanagan at Penguin Bookshop

Join Dr. Diane Todd Bucci, Associate Professor of English Studies & Com. Skills, SCIS, Robert Morris University, and Penguin Bookshop staff as they host Dr. Brenda Flanagan.    

Dr. Brenda Flanagan teaches creative writing, Caribbean and African-American literatures as well as literary analysis at the University of Davidson in North Carolina.  She is known internationally for her dramatic presentations of her stories and poems.  Her books include You Alone Are Dancing, Allah in the Islands and In Praise of Island Women & Other Crimes.

In May 2006 she was named the first Armfield Professor of English.  Professor Flanagan has won numerous awards for her fiction and drama in the United States and serves frequently as a cultural ambassador for the US Department of State, with recent visits to Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Chad, Panama and India. She holds a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Michigan.