Author to visit ECC for Writers Center Reading Series event March 9

Elgin Community College will welcome Francesca T. Royster as the next featured guest of the Writers Center Reading Series on Thursday, March 9. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Building H Arts Center, Room H142, 1700 Spartan Drive in Elgin.

Royster is a professor of English and chair of the English Department at DePaul University in Chicago. She received her PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995. She is the author of "Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era."

Royster is also the author of "Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon." She has published creative essays in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Literati, The Windy City Times, and the anthologies "Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships and Identity," and "Queer Praxis." She is currently working on a memoir on queer adoption and chosen family, and a scholarly book project on African-American country music performers and fans.

All Writers Center readings are free and open to the public. A pre-reading dinner with Royster will be held at 5:30 p.m. Books will be available for sale and signing.

For reservations and more information, please contact Rachael Stewart at rstewart@elgin.edu.