African American Literature Scholar Daylanne English Apr. 13

Story posted April 06, 2009

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Daylanne English.

African American literature scholar Daylanne English will give a talk at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, 2009, in Russwurm African American Center, Common Room, second floor.

English's lecture, titled "Ticking, Not Talking: Timekeeping in Early African American Literature," is open to the public. Admission is free. A reception will follow the lecture.

Daylanne English earned her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Virginia, and her B.A. at Oberlin College.

Before joining the faculty of Macalester College in 2003, she taught African American literature at Bowie State University, one of the oldest historically black colleges in the nation. She has also held visiting appointments in African American literature at Brown University and in Caribbean literature at Brandeis University.

Her areas of interest include history of the novel, detective fiction, race and visual culture, and literature and medicine, among others.

English is the author of Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (University of North Carolina Press, 2004). Her current book project is titled Political Fictions: Time and Justice in African American Literature, 1773-2007.

Daylanne English's Bowdoin talk is sponsored by the Department of English and the Africana Studies Program. For more information call 725-3552.

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