A Lecture by Dr. Gene Andrew Jarrett
English and African American Studies, Boston University
“No Name, No Banner”: Slave Agency beyond Literacy and Literature
Wednesday, October 31st
4:30PM
UMass Campus Center, Room 904
Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of
English and Professor of African American Studies at Boston
University. He is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political
History of African American Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants:
Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007). He is the
editor or co-editor of multiple volumes on African American literature
and literary criticism: A Companion to African American Literature
(2010); The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar (2009); The New
Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture,
1892-1938 (2007); A Long Way from Home by Claude McKay (2007); The
Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar (2006); and African American
Literature Beyond Race: An Alternative Reader (2006). He is now
writing a book on the literature, life and times of Paul Laurence
Dunbar.
Event supported by the UMass Amherst Center for Teaching and Faculty
Development’s Mutual Mentoring Initiative, funded by The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation. Additional support provided by the Department of
English.
Please contactbrusert@afroam.umass.edu with questions about the event
or for directions.
