The Department of English at California State University, Dominguez Hills will host the annual Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture featuring science fiction author David Gerrold as the guest speaker, on Tuesday, April 8, at 7 p.m. in the Loker Student Union Ballroom. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Gerrold’s prolific output includes stage shows, teleplays, film scripts, educational films, computer software, comic books, more than 50 novels and anthologies, and hundreds of articles, columns, and short stories. His novels and stories have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

The lecture series honors former CSU Dominguez Hills professor of English Patricia Eliet, who taught at the university from 1969 to 1990.  It is sponsored by the Department of English, English Graduate Association, College of Arts and Humanities, and Associated Students Incorporated.