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Eileen Garvin’s novel Crow Talk centers on two women educators—ornithologist Frankie O’Neill and music teacher Anne Ryan—who meet one another unexpectedly on the shores of June Lake in the Pacific Northwest in their respective family cottages during the fall when other residents have shuttered their cottages for the season. Both Frankie and Anne ultimately draw on their scholarly and teaching investments in art and ritual—ornithology and Irish music respectively—to address significant challenges in their respective families in order to heal and find friendship. The ritual calls of crows help them—not least of all Anne’s young son Aiden, who otherwise refuses to speak—bond and move forward in empowering ways. Using Garvin’s novel as a touchstone, the three invited panelists on this roundtable session will reflect on how art and ritual intersect in their teaching, scholarly, and/or artistic practices.

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Presented in partnership with The Center for American Literary Studies and Centre County Reads.