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Jeffrey Allen Tucker to Speak Mar. 31 as Part of Africana Studies Series
Story posted March 27, 2008
Jeffrey Allen Tucker
Jeffrey Allen Tucker, associate professor of English and director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Africana and African-American Studies at University of Rochester, will give a talk titled "Verticality Is Such a Risky Enterprise: The Literary and Paraliterary Antecedents of Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist at 4 p.m. Monday, March 31, 2008, in the John Brown Russwurm African-American Center on the Bowdoin College campus.
Tucker's talk is open to the public and admission is free.
Jeffrey Allen Tucker is the author of A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity, and Difference (Wesleyan University Press, 2004) and the co-editor, with Judith Jackson, of Race Consciousness: African-American Studies for the New Century (New York University Press, 1997). He is currently working on a biography of John Alfred Williams.
Tucker earned his A.B. and M.A. at the University of Missouri–Columbia, and his Ph.D. at Princeton University.
Following a major forum on Africana studies in the spring of 2007, Bowdoin's Africana Studies Program will host a series of talks by distinguished scholars throughout the 2007-08 academic year.