Challenging Anti-Blackness in Literary Studies


White Orientations in Late Victorian Slum Fiction
Professor Sophia Hsu, Lehman College (CUNY)
Friday, Feb. 3, 2023
2-3:30 p.m.

Teaching to Learn: The Stakes of Anti-Racist Pedagogy for Literary Studies
Professor Cassander Smith, University of Alabama
Friday, March 3, 2023
2-3:30 p.m.

"Better to the Commonwealth:" Merchant, Mixedness and Demographic Revision
Professor Kyle Grady, University of California, Irvine
Friday, March 24, 2023
2-3:30 p.m.

Medii Homines: Toward a Critical Ontology of Brownness
Professor Manu Chander, Rutgers University
Friday, April 28, 2023
2-3:30 p.m.

Teaching Baldwin Teaching
Professor William Maxwell, Washington University
Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022
10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Race and Revision: Editing Othello
Professor Patricia Akhimie, Rutgers University
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022
9:30-11 a.m.

Hurston’s Secret Laughter: Contributions to African American Thought
Professor Lindsey Stewart, University of Memphis
Friday, Sept. 30, 2022
2-3:30 p.m.

Everyman and Everybody: The Problem of Black Matter
Professor Matthew Vernon, UC Davis
Friday, Sept. 16, 2022
2-3:30 p.m.