Memorial & Brunch  

Sunday, April 6, 2025 (Johns Hopkins University Alumni Weekend) 

10 am – 12 pm 

Mason Hall Auditorium (Memorial) & Foyer (Brunch), Homewood Campus 

3101 Wyman Park Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218 

John Barth, A&S ’51, ’52 (MA), groundbreaking and prolific author, revered teacher, and professor emeritus in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, died on April 2, 2024 at 93. Best known for his postmodernist, unpredictable fiction and his exacting and generous teaching, Barth served on the Johns Hopkins faculty from 1973 until he retired in 1995. He is the author of 17 novels and collections of short fiction and three collections of essays. He won a National Book Award, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction, a Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story (JHU HUB, In Memoriam: https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/04/02/john-barth-writing-seminars-obituary/).  

Come gather with Barth’s students, mentees, colleagues, admirers, and readers to celebrate and honor his life and work. 

We are welcoming short remembrances of John Barth, and/or short reflections on his writing (no more than 800 words), which we will gather in a commemorative booklet. Excerpts of previously published remembrances and reflections are welcome, as long as you have the right to republish.

Please contact Writing Seminars professor doramalech@jhu.edu with any questions. 

Please contact senior associate director of development Serena Schrieber at sschrei9@jhu.edu if you are interested in honoring John Barth’s memory through the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University or supporting the Writing Seminars more broadly. 

And visit Special Collections in Brody Learning Commons for a look at some Barth-related materials during Alumni Weekend.