WTAMU Distinguished Lecture Series

“On October 17, we had an outstanding workshop day including Bolutife Dosumu and Angie Lutts. Thanks to everyone who attended and everyone involved in making this run so smoothly!”
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Join us this evening for our first DLS event of the semester!
Philosopher and author Dr. Eli Kramer will speak at 6 p.m. in the Fine Arts Complex Recital Hall on the topic of "Academic Responsibility as Rome Burns." A reception will follow.

Special thanks to Dr. Laura Mueller for coordinating this event and thank you to the event co-hosts!

Co-hosted by: English, Philosophy, and Modern Languages at West Texas A&M University, Attebury Honors, and Drs. Monica and David Hart

It was an honor to hear from award-winning writer Christian Wallace tonight at the final Distinguished Lecture Series event of the semester hosted by the Center for the Study of the American West for the Garry L. Nall Lecture in Western Studies.

Wallace said he had a calling to tell stories, and he pointed out that "all stories are really about one thing: home."

There weren't any bookstores or even a Walmart in Andrews when he grew up, but he said his saving grace was the public library and a librarian who inspired his love of books. When he read a line by C.S. Lewis that prompted him to feel what it was like to have sherbet melt on his tongue, he decided he wanted to do that, too -- to make people feel something with language.

He said oil has had a profound impact on him as a storyteller. When he worked in the oil fields, he kept notes of observations in a small notebook "before they fitted away" -- a notebook you can see in one of the actor's pockets in Landman, a series which he co-wrote with Taylor Sheridan.

His first article in Texas Monthly was "Learning to Roughneck."