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Emily Strand discusses Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier. Explore how Star Trek continues to impact "our present, very human selves—our struggles, our prejudices, and our dreams."
Emily Strand is the co-editor of the book Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier and the author of No Bigotry on the Bridge, a chapter in a forthcoming Star Trek essay collection. Explore the influences that the series' creators, writers, and actors brought to the final frontier and how Star Trek continues to provide insight "into our present, very human selves—our struggles, our prejudices, and our dreams."
About the Author
Emily Strand is the Director of Campus Ministry and Liturgical Music at Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Ohio. She is an author, podcaster, speaker, award-winning singer-songwriter and musician. She holds an MA in theology from the University of Dayton and has taught religion at the college level for more than 20 years. Emily has published two books on Catholic sacraments and several peer-reviewed chapters and essays on the religious, symbolic and spiritual themes in popular fiction such as Harry Potter and Star Wars. With Dr. Kathryn N. McDaniel of Marietta College, Emily co-hosts Potterversity, a Potter Studies Podcast, a show in the MuggleNet family of podcasts. With McDaniel and with Amy H. Sturgis, Emily is co-editor of three scholarly books for academic presses on Star Wars, Star Trek and Harry Potter.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Global and Cultural Awareness | Books Reading and Storytelling |
Bexley Public Library was founded in 1924 and first housed in Bexley High School, now Montrose Elementary School. The present building opened in 1929 and was designed by architects O.C. Miller and R.R. Reeves who drew upon French and Italian architecture from the 17th century for the design.
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