The keynote speaker for the 2014 Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature (NUCL) will be scholar and social critic Janine Utell. She will present “Scenes from a Life Loving Books: Or, Everything I think I know about stories I learned from Barry Manilow” at 1:45 p.m. in Mago Hunt Center recital hall. Utell’s talk is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. For more information e-mail nucl@up.edu or go to http://tinyurl.com/me5cs56.