Critical Conversations is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s Office. Each Critical Conversations session features panelists who will give flash talks about their current work as related to a broad theme.
October Theme "Celebrity"
Aliyah Khan (chair) - Jay Cook | Nilo Couret | Jimmy Draper | Lydia Kelow-Bennett
“What was Black Celebrity Before the Jazz Age? The Case of Ira Aldridge”
Jay Cook is a U.S. cultural historian who has written widely on the evolution of mass culture; African American art, ideas, and politics; the "cultural turn" in U.S. history, and most recently, the history of global celebrity. He has taught at the University of Michigan since 2001. In July 2023, he became the inaugural Director of Research for the UM Inclusive History Project, a three-campus initiative through the UM President's Office and NCID. His talk today is part of a larger book on the rise of African American celebrity in global markets from Phillis Wheatly to Paul Robeson.
TBA
Nilo Couret is an Associate Professor of Spanish whose interdisciplinary research foregrounds the affective dimensions of global media, exploring how to speak about local cultural practice in non-essentialist terms. His primary areas of inquiry are Latin American cinema and popular culture; post-independence cinemas of Asia and Africa; theories of film, television and new media; postcolonial studies; trauma studies and affect theory.
“Red Carpet Labor”
Jimmy Draper is a Lecturer III in Communication & Media. He teaches courses on fashion, media industries, and fandom, and his research on these topics has been published in journals such as Celebrity Studies, Men and Masculinities, and Media, Culture, and Society.
"Proxies: Black Women Celebrities and Affect"
Lydia Kylo-Bennett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her primary research and teaching areas are Black feminist thought and Black popular culture. She is currently working on a manuscript about Black women celebrities, Black feminist cultural criticism, and affect.
December - “Methodologies” - Friday, 12/6, 11am - 1pm
January - Mind - Thurs, 1/16 11am - 1pm
February - Hauntings Thurs, 2/20 11am - 1pm
October Theme "Celebrity"
Aliyah Khan (chair) - Jay Cook | Nilo Couret | Jimmy Draper | Lydia Kelow-Bennett
“What was Black Celebrity Before the Jazz Age? The Case of Ira Aldridge”
Jay Cook is a U.S. cultural historian who has written widely on the evolution of mass culture; African American art, ideas, and politics; the "cultural turn" in U.S. history, and most recently, the history of global celebrity. He has taught at the University of Michigan since 2001. In July 2023, he became the inaugural Director of Research for the UM Inclusive History Project, a three-campus initiative through the UM President's Office and NCID. His talk today is part of a larger book on the rise of African American celebrity in global markets from Phillis Wheatly to Paul Robeson.
TBA
Nilo Couret is an Associate Professor of Spanish whose interdisciplinary research foregrounds the affective dimensions of global media, exploring how to speak about local cultural practice in non-essentialist terms. His primary areas of inquiry are Latin American cinema and popular culture; post-independence cinemas of Asia and Africa; theories of film, television and new media; postcolonial studies; trauma studies and affect theory.
“Red Carpet Labor”
Jimmy Draper is a Lecturer III in Communication & Media. He teaches courses on fashion, media industries, and fandom, and his research on these topics has been published in journals such as Celebrity Studies, Men and Masculinities, and Media, Culture, and Society.
"Proxies: Black Women Celebrities and Affect"
Lydia Kylo-Bennett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her primary research and teaching areas are Black feminist thought and Black popular culture. She is currently working on a manuscript about Black women celebrities, Black feminist cultural criticism, and affect.
December - “Methodologies” - Friday, 12/6, 11am - 1pm
January - Mind - Thurs, 1/16 11am - 1pm
February - Hauntings Thurs, 2/20 11am - 1pm
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