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WLP Scholar Series: Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann
Join us for a discussion on “Caliban Why? C.L.R. James in Cuba, 1968.” Free and open to the public. RSVPs will close the day before the event. Non-Emerson guests must RSVP to be given security access to the event. ---- Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, & Publishing at Emerson College. She is currently completing the book, Constructing the Caribbean, which excavates what choosing to write the Caribbean archipelago—or not—meant to the ferment of literary…
Find out more »Emerson College WLP Scholar Series, Erika R. Williams at Walker Building, Room 205
Emerson College WLP presents Erika R. Williams' "Subversions of Double Consciousness in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Detective Fiction." Friend WLP Town Crier on Facebook for exclusive photos from the event. Non-Emerson guests must RSVP on Eventbrite by Oct 16, 2019 for security access. Scant attention has been paid to Du Bois's forays into the detective story. In this talk, Williams examines two iterations of the writer's early twentieth-century detective fiction, "The Case" and "The Shaven Lady," both of which…
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.