Please join the English Department for the 2024 Annual Lora Hutchins Heberle Award and Lecture with Professor Kevin Quashie of Brown University.

"Reading, thinking, writing—and blackness. Or textuality. The witch’s flight, the sermon’s call. Estrangement and the praxis of criticism . . . criticism which might not always be the same as critique. Signs, wondrous and plain, right here close to one’s reach. Mastery. Mystery."

Kevin Quashie is Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in the Department of English at Brown University. He is the author or editor of four books, most notably The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture (2012) and Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (2021). Black Aliveness has been awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize for best overall book from the Modern Language Association (2022) and the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation (2022).

Livestream: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98689994738