MAGNOLIA, Ark. –The fall installment of the Kathleen Mallory Distinguished Lecture Series will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, November 13 in the Grand Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center at Southern Arkansas University.
Dr. Sharon P. Holland, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Gender Studies, and American Studies at Northwestern University in Chicago will deliver a talk titled “The African Diaspora in Indian Country: the Case of Eleanor Eldridge.” Holland, a Fulbright Scholar, promises a lively lecture and a good story.
Holland is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a doctorate in English and African American Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of “Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity” (Duke UP, 2000), which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA) in 2002. She is also co-author of a collection of trans-Atlantic Afro-Native criticism with Professor Tiya Miles (American Culture, UM, Ann Arbor) titled “Crossing Waters/ Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country” (Duke University Press, 2006).
Professor Holland is responsible for bringing a feminist classic, “The Queen is in the Garbage” by Lila Karp to the attention of The Feminist Press (Summer 2007). Her current creative projects include a novella “How Bubba the Socrates Got to be Neither,” and a play “Killing Martha.” She is now at work on a second book “The Erotic Life of Racism.”
The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information please contact Dr. Linda Tucker, assistant professor of English at (870) 235-4210.
