Brown Bag Lecture by Cynthia Joyce

On Wednesday, November 11 at noon in Barnard Observatory, Cynthia Joyce will present a talk on her new book, Please Forward: How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina. Learn more about the book here.

Cynthia Joyce has been a writer, editor, and web producer for more than 15 years and has contributed to several regional and national publications, including The Washington Post, Newsday, NPR.org, Entertainment Weekly, and MSNBC.com, where she was a senior producer from 2007-2011; Nola.com, where she worked briefly as a producer post-Katrina; and Salon, where she was arts and entertainment editor from 1995-2000. She received her BA from Duke University in 1991, and her Masters of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University in 1993.  She joined the University of Mississippi faculty in 2011.

Brown Bag Lectures take place on select Wednesdays during the fall and spring semesters in the Tupelo Room in the west wing of Barnard Observatory. Brown Bags last one hour and are free and open to the public.