Graduate English Speaker Series
When and Where
Speakers
Description
Join us on March 24th at 4:15 PM in Jackman Humanities Building Room 616 for an exciting talk by Kevin Quashie, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in English at Brown University.
A reception will follow the event. RSVP here.
Talk title:
"Endearingly, Reading”
Abstract:
Let's consider reading as it relates to writing and thinking, reading as a way to explore the function of black criticism in fractured times; let's consider reading's offering as estrangement, a praxis--maybe--for being in the world.
Speaker Bio:
Kevin Quashie is Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in the Department of English at Brown University. He is the author or editor of four books, most recently The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture (2012) and Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (2021). Black Aliveness has been awarded two prizes: the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association (2022) and the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation (2022).
