Office of Public Relations

Speakers bureau

If your civic or community group is looking for a speaker on an upcoming meeting or event, we can provide you with someone on the following topics. Please continually check this page as we are adding more topics.

American literature

• Tradition and dissent in American poetry
• The poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
• Herman Melville at sea
• The meaning of Moby-Dick
• American literature of the sea
• Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond

Deaf education

• Learning styles of graduate students in deaf education, audiology and speech language pathology
• How do deaf postsecondary youths solve mathematic word problems?
• Teacher and doctoral leadership preparation in deaf education: today’s challenges

Poetry

• Writing poetry – the serious and the silly
• How to write a good poem
• Poetry and personal relationships – understanding the other in words
• The craft of poetry writing
• Writing creative non-fiction