Guest speaker to talk on immigrant women
Author Irina Reyn will speak of the many trials faced by immigrant women as part of Elgin Community College's spring 2010 Speaker Series on Thursday, March. 4.
"Immigrant Women: Voices of Identity and Assimilation," a lecture presented by the ECC Humanities Center, begins at 11 a.m. in the Advanced Technology Center Auditorium on the main campus, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin. The event is free and open to the public. Reyn will discuss the challenges faced by immigrant women as they find a new voice and identity after immigrating to the United States. She immigrated to the United States at the age of 7 from Moscow and now teaches English literature and writing at the University of Pittsburgh.
Reyn is the author of "What Happened to Anna K.?," a modern-day version of Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" set in present-day New York City within a community of Russian Jewish immigrants. She won the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers for her novel, written in 2008.
An Immigrant Women Roundtable will follow Reyn's presentation at 12:30 p.m. in the Instruction Center, Room ICT 102. For information about the 2010 Speaker Series, call (847) 214-7864. For information about other events at ECC, visit elgin.edu/calendar.