New Research in African American Studies Lecture Series

Wednesday,  March  12
MICHAEL HILL
Assistant Professor, Department of English and African American Studies
“‘What is Africa to Me?’: Cultural Identity in Reagan Era African American Novels”

Friday, April 11
VERSHAWN ASHANTI  YOUNG
Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric and African American Studies
“Compulsory Homosexuality and Black Masculine Performance”

Friday, April 25
DEBORAH WHALEY
Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies and African American Studies
“African Goddesses, Mixed-Race Wonders, and Baadasssss Women:
Black Female Comic Book Characters of the 1970s and 1980s”
(co-sponsored with the Department of American Studies)

Friday, May 9
BRIDGET HARRIS TSEMO
Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric and African American Studies
“Our Unwashed Democracy: Class and Black Citizenship after Reconstruction”

The African American Studies program of the University of Iowa announces its new lecture series focusing on the new research of its junior faculty.

All talks will take place in 704 Jefferson Building (corner of Washington and Dubuque streets) in Iowa City, IA. 

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa sponsored events.  If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate, please contact the African American Studies Program at 319-335-0285.