Photo Credits: Nikky Finney: Forrest Clonts; Courtney Banghart: UNC Athletics Staff Photographer; Liz Roberts: UNC Athletics Staff Photographer; Alan Shapiro: Sarah Boyd Poetry and Sports: Poetry in Motion—Motion in Poetry Panel sponsored by 2020 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence Program … Read more
Dear Friends, We hope you will come and break bread with us at our spring 2020 Latina/o Studies Program Café y Charla open house. At the café y charla, guests will have … Read more
Nikky Finney 2020 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence Reading Tuesday, February 25 7:30 p.m. Genome Sciences Building Photo of Nikky Finney by Forrest Clonts
"Blacker than a hundred midnights": Public History and Memory and the Souls of Blackfolk in the South
Dr. Nathan Hensley of Georgetown University will present a lecture entitled "In the Ruins of Bourgeois Life: Hopkins, Turner, Eliot," to be followed by a question-and-answer session.
Dr. Nathan Hensley will lead an informal seminar discussion on his published piece "Catastrophe and Knowledge: Thinking through the archives of ‘industrial time’ – from Jane Eyre to the IPCC report," as published in The Ecologist.
Kiese Laymon does not dissemble. By turns raw, real, fantastical, and funny, his memoirs and fiction articulate the slow death of living amidst state violence and the poetic transcendence of managing to keep on keeping on nonetheless. Personal but public, … Read more
Nan Z. Da is a scholar of American and Chinese literature, as well as Chinese and Western literary and social theory.
LSPGradSymposiumRootsandWhiteFinal Through an analysis of the ways in which the story engages with notions of illness, transmission, and knowledge, Professor Hey-Colón discusses how “Puddles” and its characters become an embodiment of the costs and gains associated with the process … Read more
Nan Z. Da is a scholar of American and Chinese literature, as well as Chinese and Western literary and social theory.
