Allan Punzalan Isaac specializes in Asian American, comparative ethnic and postcolonial aspects of contemporary American literary and cultural studies. His first book American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) is the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies…

Priscilla Wald teaches and works on U.S. literature and culture, particularly literature of the late-18th to mid-20th centuries, contemporary narratives of science and medicine, science fiction literature and film, law and literature, and environmental studies. Her current work focuses on the intersections among the law, literature, science…

Barbara Browning is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Professor of American Studies and English and Associate Dean of the Humanities at Rutgers University. He received his BA from Williams College and His PhD in Comparative Literature from NYU.

Lyric Education as a Practice of Freedom

This talk explores the poetry and pedagogy that emerged from organizing spaces of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the Voting Rights Campaign in the US South in 1963 and 1964: namely the SNCC mass meetings and Freedom Schools in Mississippi. Poetic reading practices emerging…

Assembling a Black Counter Culture

Rhythmanalyst DeForrest Brown presents his forthcoming book, Assembling a Black Counter Culture, which constructs the history of techno and adjacent electronic music with a focus on Black experiences in industrialized labor systems, and explores the development of on-the-ground culture…

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Melting Modernities: Ice, Sound, and Revolutions

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Temporal Pulsations: Tishan Hsu in New York and Shanghai

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Frederick Douglass, New Orleans, and the Possibility of Editorship Studies

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

"Something Else You Have to Figure In: the Ethical Dilemma of Unreliable Citizenship in Morrison's Home and Jazz"

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Speculative Pleasures, "The Archive" and a Pig Roast; Or, Who Are Obour Tanner and Cesar Lyndon

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Black Digitality

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Alchemy in African/American Poetry: Experimental Ekphrasis

Decolonizing Climate Justice: Indigenous Movements

Lunch will be provided.

Afro-Feminism Before Afro-Pessimism

Please contact Kimberly Bain ([email protected]) prior to talk to obtain copies of readings.

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.