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Critical Speaker Series Presents Kevin Quashie’s Graduate Student Seminar: “Blackness, Being, and Aesthetics”

Date
February 10, 2022
Time
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue
Cost
FREE

Description

Kevin Quashie’s virtual seminar is available to all graduate students! It will follow his virtual lecture, given Feb 9th. Dr. Quashie teaches black cultural and literary studies and is a professor in the department of English at Brown University. Primarily, he focuses on black feminism, queer studies, and aesthetics, especially poetics. He is the author or editor of four books, most recently The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture (2012) and Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (2021). Currently, he is thinking about a book of black sentences and black ideas.