On Wednesday, October 23 at 5:00 p.m. a panel will be held in honor of Fred Strebeigh, Senior Lecturer Emeritus in English and in Forestry and Environmental Studies. The panel will feature Yale alumni authors Ava Kofman, Wesley Morris, Yuki Noguchi, and Sarah Stillman, with remarks by Anne Fadiman, and is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and Department of English, the Paul Block Journalism Program, and The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale. The panel will be held in the Branford College Common Room (located below the Branford Dining Hall) at 74 High Street in New Haven.
Fred Strebeigh’s nonfiction writing has covered a wide range of subjects including the history and origins of nature writing, the arts and crafts movement in America, the role of the bicycle as a cultural force in China, educational exchange between China and the United States, the creation of a dictionary of American dialects, pressures on the Antarctic treaty system, natural and social conditions in the Falkland Islands, the race to create radar during World War II, traces of early man in southern Africa, the rise of feminist law, saving whales from fishing nets off the coast of Newfoundland, the impact of environmental issues on the presidential election in 2004, and defending the world’s largest system of scientific nature reserves in Russia. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications including Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, E: The Environmental Magazine, Legal Affairs, New Republic, Reader’s Digest, Russian Life, Sierra, Smithsonian, and the New York Times Magazine. An article for the New York Times Magazine became the starting point for his book Equal: Women Reshape American Law (Norton, 2009). In 2004 Professor Strebeigh received Yale’s DeVane Award, presented each year by Phi Beta Kappa to one member of the university’s active faculty. At Yale commencement in 2009 received the Brodhead Prize for Teaching Excellence.