Monday, April 29, 2019, 4:00-6:00pm, 1090 Lincoln Hall Simeon Man’s work has been published in edited volumes and journals, including American Quarterly and Radical History Review. His talk will discuss the histories of Asians and Asian Americans who fought in…
Thursday, April 25, 2019, 7:00pm, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum (600 South Gregory, Urbana) Internationally recognized scholar Cheryl Grills will discuss the research she has conducted to decrease health disparities among African Americans, as well as community intervention efforts to combat…
Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 12:00-1:00pm, English Building 109 In this book launch, Spires will discuss the parallel development of early black print culture and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship, ultimately showing how black writers argued that citizenship is defined by…
Marina Bilbija comes from Wesleyan University, where she is an assistant professor and where teaches and writes about Afro-diasporic print culture in the long nineteenth century. Her work has appeared in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and…
Radiclani Clytus works at the intersections of new media and nineteenth-century American literature and visual culture. He has written extensively on transatlantic abolitionist imagery and is the editor of two prose compilations by poet Yusef Komunyakaa. His manuscripts “Graphic Slavery: American…
Professor emerita in the Department of English, University of Maryland, Carla Peterson has enjoyed a truly distinguished career studying nineteenth-century African American literature, history, and culture, having published many highly regarded articles. Her books, “Doers of the Word”: African-American Women…
Autumn Womack took her Ph.D from Columbia and is now an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University where she specializes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literary and visual culture. Her first monograph,…
Thursday, April 11, 2019, 4:00pm, IPRH Lecture Hall, Levis Faculty Center, Fourth Floor (919 West Illinois Street, Urbana) Dr. Roberts will be discussing local political protest movements for addiction treatments in the US during the ’60s and ’70s, as well…
Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 5:00pm, Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium (600 S Gregory St, Urbana) This event is part of the 21st Century Jewish Writing and the World writers series. More information is available here.
Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 4:00pm, Illini Union 210 Professor Pease will be discussing the settler colonial strain seen in The Scarlet Letter as the precondition for an “American Renaissance” interpretation, placing it into scope with Indigenous critical studies theorists, Black…