SCUA hosts and collaborates with campus and community partners on events throughout the academic year. Below is a detailed list of upcoming SCUA events.
1/22/2026
4:30-5:30PM Special Collections, 1101 19th Ave. S.
What does an archivist do in 2026? Join us to learn about the role archivists play to preserve the digital age! In this 1 hour interactive workshop at Vanderbilt's Special Collections and University Archives, you will explore:
1/29/2026
7:00 PM Special Collections, 1101 19th Ave S.
Mitchell S. Jackson is the winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing and the 2021 National Magazine Award in Feature Writing. His debut novel The Residue Years won a Whiting Award and The Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. His essay collection Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family was named a best book of 2019 by fifteen publications. Jackson is also the author of Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion, described by the New York Times, as “A coffee-table book that elevates the subject to the same decorative status as a Dior or Gucci monograph.”
The reading begins at 7:00 pm, followed by a book signing.
2/19/2026
7:00 PM Special Collections, 1101 19th Ave. S.
Prageeta Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, Onement Won (Wave, 2025) and Grief Sequence (Wave, 2019). Her honors and awards include a 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and a Howard Foundation Award. She has taught at the New School, Goddard College, and the University of Montana-Missoula. She is the Henry G. Lee professor of English at Pomona College as well as the founder and president of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, and Literary Studies.
The reading begins at 7:00 pm, followed by a book signing.