College of Arts and Humanities
SpeakerDr Rachel Farebrother
Dr Miriam Thaggert
Miriam Thaggert is Associate Professor of African American Literature at SUNY-Buffalo. She is the author of Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010). With Rachel Farebrother, she is co-editor of A History of the Harlem Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 (CUP, 2022). Her essays have appeared in African American Review, American Quarterly, American Literary History, Feminist Modernist Studies, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, and the edited volume New Modernist Studies. Her new monograph, Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad (University of Illinois) will be published in June, 2022.
Rachel Farebrother is a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at Swansea University. She is the author of The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance (Ashgate, 2009). Her essays have appeared in Comparative American Studies, Journal of American Studies, MELUS, Modernism/modernity, and various edited collections. With Miriam Thaggert (SUNY-Buffalo), she has co-edited The History of the Harlem Renaissance (CUP, 2021) and African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 (CUP, 2022).
To: 17 May 2022, 3 p.m.
Location: Online Event - Please see description
In this special online event, Dr Rachel Farebrother and Dr Miriam Thaggert discuss co-editing A History of the Harlem Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 (CUP, 2022).
Register here: http://bit.ly/editinghr
(Email: cultural-institute@swansea.ac.uk)
Website: http://bit.ly/editinghr
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