MAGNOLIA, Ark. \u2013The 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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 \u201cRaising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity\u201d (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 \u201cCrossing Waters\/ Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country\u201d (Duke University Press, 2006).<\/p>\n
Professor Holland is responsible for bringing a feminist classic, \u201cThe Queen is in the Garbage\u201d by Lila Karp to the attention of The Feminist Press (Summer 2007). Her current creative projects include a novella \u201cHow Bubba the Socrates Got to be Neither,\u201d and a play \u201cKilling Martha.\u201d She is now at work on a second book \u201cThe Erotic Life of Racism.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MAGNOLIA, Ark. \u2013The 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. <\/p>\n
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