TPS Program to host event at university
A program titled “God Struck Me Dead: Rethinking the Conversion Narratives from the WPA (Works Progress Administration),” will be held in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center on the campus of Waynesburg University Thursday, Feb. 10.
Beginning at noon, the presentation will run approximately one hour. The presentation will be held in honor of Black History Month and is open to Waynesburg University faculty, staff, students and the local community. Admission is free.
Dr. Joonna Trapp, associate professor of English and chair of the Department of English and Foreign Language at Waynesburg University, will serve as the keynote speaker. Trapp was recently selected as one of only 26 individuals to participate in the “Slave Narratives” seminar at Yale University.
A question and answer session will follow Trapp’s presentation.
For more information about the presentation, contact Sue Wise, associate director of the TPS Eastern Region Program, at swise@waynesburg.edu or 724-852-3377.
The Waynesburg University Teaching with Primary Sources program is a professional development provider for in-service and pre-service educators. The TPS program works with schools, universities, libraries and foundations to help teachers use the Library’s vast collection of digitized primary sources to enrich their classroom instruction.
Teaching with Primary Sources is funded through the Library of Congress and is administered through Waynesburg University. The TPS program has only three regional partnerships, each responsible for dissemination of TPS techniques and materials throughout the states within the region.
Waynesburg University has been involved with the Library of Congress outreach program since 2003 and was named the Eastern Regional Partner in October 2008.