The reading is part of the 2018-2019 Visiting Writers Series, which brings nationally acclaimed writers to Oregon State University. She holds a bachelor of arts from Yale and masters and doctoral degrees from Harvard. Sentilles is also the co-founder of the Immigration Alliance of Idaho and has taught at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University, California State University Channel Islands and Willamette University, where she was the Mark and Melody Teppola Presidential Distinguished Visiting Professor. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Oprah Magazine, Ms., Religion Dispatches, Oregon ArtsWatch and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. Sentilles’ other books include “Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton,” “A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit” and “Breaking Up with God: A Love Story.”
The book was named one of the best nonfiction books of 2017 by the Chicago Review of Books. Her most recent book, “Draw Your Weapons,” published by Random House in 2017, combines memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature and theology to investigate questions of war, violence, peace and compassion. Sentilles is a writer, critical theorist, religious scholar and teacher whose work investigates the roles languages, images and practices play in oppression, violence, social transformation and justice movements.
A question-and-answer session and book signing will follow. 26 in the Valley Library Rotunda on the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis. – Nonfiction writer Sarah Sentilles will read at 7:30 p.m. A single book might not change the world, but this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world-and that makes all the difference. Draw Your Weapons stirs and confronts, disturbs and illuminates. In the process she challenges conventional thinking about how violence is waged, witnessed and resisted. Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature and theology, Sentilles tells the true stories of a conscientious objector during World War II and a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib. In Draw Your Weapons, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defence of life lived by peace and principle. Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2017 Draw your weapons / Sarah Sentilles Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google Books
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