King College will present Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, author, on Sept. 6for the opening convocation of the 2010-2011 Buechner Lecture Series, “The Consolation of the Imagination…”
"Marilyn Chandler McEntyre is a wonderful way to kick off this very rich year of Buechner Institute programming,” said Jennifer Holberg, chair of the National Advisory Board for the Buechner Institute at King College.  “Her work, calling us to be more attentive to words and, therefore, to the world itself, lies at the heart of what the Institute is about."
McEntyre is an author, a poet, and a professor of English at Westmont College.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College, a Master of Arts from U.C. Davis, and a doctorate from Princeton University.
McEntyre’s publications include “Approaches to Teaching Literature and Medicine,” and three books of poems on Dutch painters:  Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh. Her most recent book is “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies.”  She is also a contributing editor to the journal, “Literature and Medicine” (Johns Hopkins), and is published widely in periodicals both in literature and in medical humanities.  
McEntyre serves on the board of the Center for Medicine, Humanities, and Law at U.C. Berkeley.  Her courses in literature and medicine examine cultural, social, and ethical dimensions of medicine, notions of illness, health, and healing, the nature of medical authority, the politics of medical institutions and medical education, complexities of public health policy, and the language of pain, all through literary texts.  
“Marilyn McEntyre has become one of the foremost defenders of words in a time when language has been devalued,” said Dale Brown, director of the Buechner Institute
A fellow of the Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts, McEntyre has received several awards for outstanding teaching including the Teacher of the Year Award at Westmont College, an Arnold Graves award from the American Council of Learned Societies for Outstanding Teaching, and the Phi Beta Kappa of Northern California Outstanding Teaching Award.  She has also won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies, and has held an endowed chair in American literature.
McEntyre will present “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies” in King’s Memorial Chapel at 10:30 a.m.  The event is open to the public and free to attend.  For more information, contact Dale Brown at 423.652.4156 or visit www.buechnerinstitute.org.

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