The Young Scholar Lecture Series
Thursday, April 28th – 5-7:30 PM
The Humanities Commons Conference Room
Humanities Gateway Room 1341
James Ford Assistant Professor of English, Occidental College
“The Difficult Miracle: Reading Phillis Wheatley against the Master’s Discourse”
Four poems from Wheatley will be under discussion:
“To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth”; “On Being Brought from Africa to America”; “Goliath of Gath”; and “Isaiah ixviii.1-8”
The poems are available online: http://www.bartleby.com/150/
A Program of the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California, at UC Irvine
Co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies and by the Department of English UC Irvine
Light Refreshments will be available at the event.
The Spring Quarter 2016 Consortium Events at UC Irvine
Meet Bi-Weekly April 7th to June 9th in the Humanities Commons Conference Room, Humanities Gateway Room 1341, UC Irvine Campus
For more information contact: blackthought@uci.edu.
