http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/claudia-rankine Born in Kingston, Jamaica, poet Claudia Rankine earned a BA at Williams College and an MFA at Columbia University. Rankine has published several collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, the PEN Center USA Poetry Award, […]

  Homi Bhabha presented his lecture as part of the Townsend Center for the Humanities’ Forum on the Humanities and the Public World. Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. Considered one of the most important figures in postcolonial studies, […]

Upcoming panel at University of Michigan, shared by Christine Hume: “On the Study of Racism” (Feb. 11, 2016 1-4:30pm, Institute for Social Research, 426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor)

Conversations on Race and Racism is a cross-disciplinary forum for discussions on race and racism established by Eastern Michigan University faculty in preparation for a symposium on Friday, March 11, 2-5pm, sponsored by JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory and entitled “Crossdisciplinary Conversations on Race and Racism.” The symposium itself will be a prelude to the the 2016 JNT Dialogue […]