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Ha Jin to Speak at MassArt

Presented by Massachusetts College of Art and Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Tower Auditorium

March 31, 2009

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The award-winning poet, essayist, and fiction writer, Ha Jin, will be the featured presenter at the annual Professor Marjorie Hellerstein Literary Reading and Lecture Series at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Ha Jin's publications include five novels, three collections of poems, and three books of short stories. His most recent books are the novel, A Free Life (2007), and a book of essays on exile and the concept of homeland, The Writer as Migrant (2008). Among other awards, Ha Jin has received a PEN/Hemingway Award for Ocean of Words (1996), the Flannery O'Connor Award for Under the Flag (1997), the National Book Award for Waiting (1999), and the Asian-American Literary Award for Bridegroom (2000). Ha Jin was a Guggenheim fellow in 1999, and in 2006 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ha Jin was born and raised in northern China. Following the Cultural Revolution, he earned a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Anglo-American Literature before coming to Brandeis in 1985 to study for a Ph.D. Since the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Ha Jin and his family have made the U.S. their permanent home. Professor Jin is on the faculty of Boston University's creative writing program. The Professor Marjorie Hellerstein Literary Reading and Lecture Series was established in 2006, with gifts from family and friends of Professor Hellerstein. Marge, who passed away in 2005, was a longtime MassArt faculty member and Chair of the Critical Studies Department during the 1980s.

Location: Tower Auditorium