Antiracism: Communities + Collaborations
The Georgetown Humanities Initiative is proud to be co-sponsoring an exciting webinar with the University of Maryland’s Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, focusing on diversity in today’s higher education.
Moderator: Prof. Julius Fleming, Jr. (U of Maryland)
Speakers:
Patricia A. Matthew is an associate professor of English at Montclair State University where she teaches courses about British Romanticism, the history of the novel, and British abolitionist literature. Matthew is the editor of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure (U of North Carolina P, 2016) and has published essays and book reviews on diversity in higher education in PMLA, The College Language Association Journal, Signs, and The New Inquiry. She is currently writing a monograph about sugar, gender, and British abolitionist culture under advance contract with Princeton UP.
Christy Pichichero is a public intellectual and Associate Professor of History and French at George Mason University. She is the Director of Faculty Diversity in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the President of the Western Society for French History, and a thought leader in Critical Race Theory, anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Dr. Pichichero’s first book, The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Cornell UP, 2017). Her current book-length research project engages theories of Critical Race Studies and Critical Mixed Race Studies to investigate intersectionality and processes of racialization in 18th-c Europe.
Julius B. Fleming, Jr. earned a doctorate in English, and a graduate certificate in Africana studies, from the University of Pennsylvania. Specializing in Afro-Diasporic literatures and cultures, he has particular interests in performance studies, black political culture, diaspora, and colonialism, especially where they intersect with race, gender, and sexuality. Professor Fleming is currently completing his first book manuscript, entitled “Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Refusal to Wait for Freedom,” under contract with New York University Press. This project reconsiders the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of black theatre, while examining the importance of time and affect to the making of the modern racial order. Analyzing a largely unexplored, transnational archive of black theatre, it demonstrates how black artists and activists used theatre and performance to unsettle the demands of a violent racial project he terms “black patience.”
Register here to reserve your place.
Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by January 25 to Nicoletta Pireddu. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill requests made after January 25.