Temple Graduate English Colloquium
African American Lives and Art: Prevailing in the Shadow of “Necropower”
Schedule:
Grad Student Panel/Q&A – 11-12:15
- Nick Cialini: “Turning Over a New Utopian Leaf: Delany and Okorafor’s Futurisms as Revisions of the Formula of Speculative Hope”
- Theodora Sakellarides: “Feelings Work: An Examination of Emotional Labor in Black American Women’s Writing”
- SaraGrace Stefan: “‘This is a place for the dead’: Specters of Necropolitics in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing”
Refreshments and break – 12:30-2
Keynote Speaker / Discussion – 2-3:30
- Autumn Womack (Associate Professor of African American Studies and English, Princeton University)
Contact Srimati.mukherjee@temple.edu with questions.