USA by the Bay - Stories Matter in a Digital World
Schedule
Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 05:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
University of South Alabama Baldwin County | Fairhope, AL
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The next USA by the Bay Speaker Series event will be held Thursday, Feb. 5, at 5:30 p.m., at the University of South Alabama Baldwin County Campus Performance Center in downtown Fairhope. This special event will feature Dr. Jocelyn Cullity, director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing, and Dr. Ellen Burton Harrington, chair of the Department of English. Together, they will present a talk titled "Stories Matter in a Digital World." USA by the Bay events are free and open to the public. Doors open at 5 p.m. Talk begins at 5:30 p.m. Reception to follow. Seating is limited, and online registration is required at SouthAlabama.edu/SpeakerSeries
How do we write good stories, and how does reading help us pay attention to the world and our communities? Drawing on the work of Southern writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Harper Lee, Cullity and Harrington will explore how storytelling shapes experience and strengthens human connection in a digital age.
Cullity’s historical novel, "Amah & the Silk-Winged Pigeons," was selected as winner of the Best Book Awards in 2018 and published in English by Inanna Publications (Canada) and Rupa (India). The book has also been translated into French and Tamil. Her second novel, "The Envy of Paradise," was a finalist for Multicultural Fiction by International Book Awards in 2020 and was published by Inanna Publications. Cullity's third historical novel, "The Nurse at Baker Hospital," will be published by Regal House in October 2026. Cullity is the director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama.
Harrington is professor and chair of English at the University of South Alabama and serves as the co-chair of the Common Read/Common World Committee and chair of the Council of Department Chairs at the University. A specialist in British literature, Harrington has edited a collection in the form of the short story and published substantially on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century literature, including literary and popular fiction. She published the monograph "Conrad’s Sensational Heroines: Gender and Representation in the Late Fiction of Joseph Conrad" with Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.
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University of South Alabama Baldwin County, 111 Saint James Avenue,Fairhope,AL,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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