The African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.

Please join us for a discussion of pre-circulated papers by University of Michigan graduate and postdoctoral students.

Faculty Respondents: Michael Awkward, Madhu Dubey, Emily Lordi, Kevin Quashie, Xiomara Santamarina, Megan Sweeney, Courtney Thorsson, Jason Young

Participating PhD students and Postdocs: Samantha Adams, Alexander Aguayo, Lauren Benjamin, Kyle Frisina, Jeremy Glover, David Hutchinson, Valentina Montero-Roman, Emily Na, Hayley O'Malley, Yeshua Tolle, Sydney Tunstall, and Jessica Walker

We very much welcome auditors, but please email Hayley O'Malley (hayleyom@umich.edu) and Yeshua Tolle (ygtolle@umich.edu) by Wednesday, October 30th to receive access to the papers.