| May 20, 2019 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 1:30 pm |
ROOM CHANGE — EMU 023 (Lease Crutcher Lewis Room), 12pm
Join us on Monday, May 20th for a much-anticipated talk by Dr. Jennifer C. Nash of Northwestern University! Dr. Nash’s talk is the next installment in the 2018-2019 New Directions in Black Feminist Studies Speaker Series, organized by Dr. Shoniqua Roach.
Dr. Jennifer C. Nash (Northwestern)
Monday, May 20, 2019 (rescheduled from April 18)
University of Oregon
Jennifer C. Nash is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on black sexual politics, black feminism, and intersectionality and the debates around it. Her first book, The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography (Duke University Press, 2014), was awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association in 2015. Her second book, Black Feminism Reimagined (Duke University Press, 2019), rewrites black feminist theory’s engagement with intersectionality. Nash has held fellowships at the Columbia Society of Fellows and the WEB Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. She also received a Woodrow Wilson Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Grant.
