On State Violence and the Arts of Attention in Contemporary Black Women’s Writing: Reading Group
March 30, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Reading Group
March 30
12 - 1:30 p.m.
UH 12th floor conference room
Lunch will be provided
Register now! The first 10 grad students to register for the reading group get a free copy of "The Other Side of Terror"!
Erica R. Edwards is Professor of African American Studies and English at Yale University. She is a scholar of African American literature and culture and feminist studies. Her most recent book, The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of U.S. Empire (NYU Press, 2021), was awarded the John Hope Franklin Book Prize from the American Studies Association and was an honorable mention for the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize. Her first book, Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (University of Minnesota Press), was awarded the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize. Professor Edwards is the co-editor, with Roderick Ferguson and Jeffrey Ogbar, of Keywords for African American Studies.
Date posted
Mar 28, 2023
Date updated
Mar 28, 2023