The Lincolnian

Issue date: 3/8/10 Section: News

Former Lincoln University Professor Dr. Joanne Gabbin will deliver the Amos Lecture on Thursday, March 11, 2010.

Former Lincoln University professor, Dr. Joanne Gabbin, will be the next speaker at the Amos Scholarly Lecture series on Thursday, March 11.

"She is a scholar of the highest caliber and symbolizes the best in liberal arts education," said Gladys J. Willis, Dean of the School of Humanities and Graduate Studies at Lincoln University. "She is an outstanding professor and public speaker."

Gabbin is currently serving as a Professor of English at James Madison University. She serves on the board of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and is affiliated with over 25 professional and service organizations.

Gabbin is well known for organizing and serving as the director of the Furious Flower Poetry Conference, an event that has brought over 70 national and international renowned poets and critics to James Madison University in 1994 and 2004 and produced three anthologies thereafter. She is also the founder and organizer of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective, which meets every year in Wintergreen, Virginia to promote scholarship in African American literature.

Gabbin has authored two books, including "Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition" (1985) which won the College Language Association Creative Scholarship Award. She has also edited four books, most recently "Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women." (2009).

She has received over forty awards for her excellence in teaching, scholarship and leadership, and in 2005 she was inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent.

"While at Lincoln, she was one of the students' favorite professors," said Willis, adding that she will discuss her most recent book. "Dr. Gabbin's lecture will inspire students to achieve their best."

The Amos Scholarly Lecture Series was founded in 1991 by the descendants of Reverend Thmas Hunter Amos of the Lincoln University class of 1859 -- Dr. Ernest C. Levister, Jr., M. D. ("58) and Harold H. Levister ('64), in memory of their mother, Ruth Amos Levister. The purpose of the Amos Series is to stimulate the minds of Lincoln students and faculty in their Liberal Arts studies, with emphasis on the theological, philosophical, classical, historical, mathematical and scientific disciplines.

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