How does one formulate critique within and of a vulnerable population within the Ivory Tower? The answer, she argues, lies in straight lines, Black physics, and Epiphenomenal time.
In this talk, Wright will discuss the ethical conundrums that are often suppressed in Black Studies when it comes to academic representations of Blackness in a diasporic framework. She is currently at work on her third monograph, Afroeuropolis, which looks at how the space of Europe is constructed by writers from across the Black and African diasporas. She is the author of Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora (Duke UP, 2004) and Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology (University of Minnesota Press, 2015).
Wright is the Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, where she teaches courses in African American, Black European, and African Diaspora literature and theory.
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