Description: Panelists explore new ways to theorize the black archive, to open up different approaches to contemporary black literature through archivally driven research, and to discuss practical methods for teaching and researching black literary archives today.

Speakers

Mollie Godfrey, James Madison U

Ayesha Hardison, U of Kansas

Laura E. Helton, U of Delaware, Newark

Hayley O'Malley, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Autumn Womack, Princeton U

Presider

Jacqueline D. Goldsby, Yale U