Lecture: Human–Nonhuman Crossings in 20th-Century African American Literature and Culture.- Institute of English Studies

On October 16 at 11:30 AM in the Strefa Współpracy, ASE / IDUB Mentor Guest Lecture will host Eve Dunbar (she/her), Professor of English at Rice University, for a talk entitled Human–Nonhuman Crossings in 20th-Century African American Literature and Culture

Dunbar’s research and teaching focus on African American literature and culture, with particular attention to Black feminism, labor, segregation, and politics. She is the author of Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) and Black Regions of the Imagination: African American Writers Between the Nation and the World (Temple UP, 2012), and co-editor of African American Literature in Transition: 1930–1940 (Cambridge UP, 2022). Her work has appeared in leading scholarly journals such as American Literature, African American Review, Callaloo, Journal of American History, and South Atlantic Quarterly, as well as in public-facing outlets like The Nation, Jezebel, Colorlines, and Literary Hub.

Among her many honors, Dunbar has been a W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center and an ACLS Burkhardt Fellow. Her essay “Loving Gorillas: Animality, Segregation Literature, and Liberation” received the 2020 Lois D. Rubin, Jr. Prize from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.

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