<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Sherryl Vint (she/her)</font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Professor</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Director, Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Editor, <i>Science Fiction Studies</i></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Editor, <a href="https://www.palgrave.com/in/series/15760" target="_blank"><i>Science and Popular Culture</i> book series </a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Weihsin Gui</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:weihsing@ucr.edu">weihsing@ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 08:04<br>Subject: [Englishfaculty] Nuraliah Norasid online Meet the Author event: Monday 28 September 9:30 PM (US Pacific time)<br>To: weihsing <<a href="mailto:weihsing@ucr.edu">weihsing@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear ENGL and SEATRIP faculty colleagues and graduate students,</div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">Only 2 weeks left before our meet the
author event with Nuraliah Norasid, author of the award-winning novel
</span><i style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">The Gatekeeper.</i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"> Please remember to register at
</span><b style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yychfrx8" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/yychfrx8</a> </b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">ahead
of time</span><b style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">.</b><br></div><div>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%;background:transparent"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">You can also read Nuraliah Norasid’s
short story “Madam Jamilah’s Family Portrait” published online
in </span><i style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">Quarterly Literary Review Singapore </i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">here</span><i style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">:
</i><b style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><a href="http://www.qlrs.com/story.asp?id=1272" target="_blank">http://www.qlrs.com/story.asp?id=1272</a></b><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%;background:transparent"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">--
WG</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%;background:transparent"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">**********</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%;background:transparent"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The
University of California-Riverside’s Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual,
and Performance (SEATRIP) program will be hosting a “Meet the
Author” event with Nuraliah Norasid, author of <i>The Gatekeeper</i>
(Epigram Books, 2016). This event will be held on Zoom.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please
see the attached event flyer and forward this event information to
anyone who might be interested.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Date
and Time: </span><b style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Monday 28 September, 9:30 PM (US Pacific time; Los
Angeles) / Tuesday 29 September, 12:30 PM (Singapore time)</b><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Zoom
registration link: </span><b style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yychfrx8" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/yychfrx8</a></b><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Publisher’s
synopsis of </span><i style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Gatekeeper</i><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">: “When young medusa Ria
inadvertently turns an entire village to stone, she and her older
sister flee to Nelroote, an underground settlement populated by other
non-humans also marginalised by society. There she becomes their
gatekeeper, hoping to seek redemption and love…until her friendship
with a man from above threatens to dismantle the city she swore to
protect.”</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For
readers in North America, digital versions of </span><i style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Gatekeeper </i><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">are
available on Amazon (<b><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y4823neq" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y4823neq</a></b>), Google
Play Store (<b><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yxdsc7aa" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/yxdsc7aa</a></b>), Apple Books (</span><b><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yy7w68jv" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/yy7w68jv</a></b><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">), and Scribd (</span><span style="background-color:transparent"><b><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y3o8he6x" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y3o8he6x</a></b></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">).</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This
event is co-sponsored by the UCR English department, Comparative
Literature department, Science Fiction and Cultures of Science
program, and Singapore Unbound.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%;background:transparent"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Nuraliah
Norasid will also be part of a panel about “The Political
Possibilities of the Short Story” with Ricco Villanueva Siasoco on
Friday 2 October at 8:00 PM (US Eastern time; New York). This event
is part of the <b>2020 Singapore Literature Festival organized by
Singapore Unbound</b>. You can register for this panel at
<b><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y4vf5hu2" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y4vf5hu2</a></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please
contact Weihsin Gui at <a href="mailto:weihsing@ucr.edu" target="_blank">weihsing@ucr.edu</a> if you have any questions.</span><br></p></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br><div>Weihsin Gui (he/him) <a href="mailto:weihsin.gui@ucr.edu" target="_blank">weihsing@ucr.edu</a></div><div>Associate Professor of English<br></div><div>Director & Graduate Advisor for Southeast Asian Studies</div><div>University of California-Riverside<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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