Signature Lecture Series Featuring Claudia Rankine

On Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 7:00 pm EST, the College of Arts & Letters is pleased to host MacArthur Genius, Guggenheim Fellow, and acclaimed author Claudia Rankine as part of the College’s Signature Lecture Series. The event is free, but registration is required. In addition to the Zoom webinar, this event will be simulcast … Read more

Harper Lee’s Fiction Is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Fact

It’s a spectacular irony that Go Set a Watchman and Between the World and Me are published on the same day. One upends half a century of admiration for Atticus Finch by suggesting that Southern whites who seemed heroic in the early years of the Civil Rights struggle were tainted by racism. The other makes the case that America … Read more