Category: Keynote

Keynote address TODAY at 5:30pm in the Maeder Hall Auditorium:

“Even If You Can’t See it: Invisible Disability and Neurodiversity.” Sejal Shah will speak about coming to terms with living with a major mood disorder and the complex cultural, practical, and emotional ramifications of that experience as a graduate student and as an academic. Join us for a reception with refreshments and snacks to follow.

You can read Sejal’s powerful autobiographical essay by the same title here: https://kenyonreview.org/…/20…/selections/sejal-shah-656342/
(TW: sexual harassment in the workplace)

Click HERE to watch Sejal’s Keynote Address!

Thursday, November 21, 5:30pm

Author Sejal Shah will be speaking about coming to terms with living with a major mood disorder and the complex cultural, practical, and emotional ramifications of that experience while a graduate student and as an academic. You can also read more about it in her essay of the same title here!

Sejal Shah is the author of the debut essay collection, This Is One Way to Dance (University of Georgia Press, June 2020), about South Asian American culture, visibility, and identity. Her essays have appeared in Brevity, Conjunctions, the Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2018 New York State Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Fiction and was awarded a 2019 fellowship and artist residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has taught creative writing at Marymount Manhattan College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Rochester, among others. She lives in Rochester, New York. www.sejal-shah.com