September 2, 2005
‘Black’ British Writing Topic of Clark lecture Sept. 12
WORCESTER, MA--“Cosmopolitan Humor in the Newest ‘Black’ British Writing” is the topic of an upcoming lecture in Clark University’s African American Intellectual Culture Series, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12, in the Grace Conference Room of the Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street.
R. Victoria Arana, professor in English of Howard University, will explore the prevailing cosmopolitan sensibility of the latest writing by young ‘Black’ Britons. She considers a range of poetry and fiction published since 2000, in which novelists and poets infuse their work with wit as they evoke a Britain where ‘blacks’ have-from a philosophical perspective at least-all the advantages.
Arana is Director of Graduate Studies in English at Howard University. She is affiliated with the American Association of University Women, the Association of American Colleges, and the Modern Language Association, where she was a founding member of the Division of Black American Literature and Culture. Arana is currently writing a study of culture shock in autobiography as well as articles on Toni Morrison’s Beloved and on cultural criticism.
Arana received a B.A. in English from Vassar College. After pursuing comparative literature and Near Eastern studies at Princeton University, Arana obtained her Ph.D. in English Literature from George Washington University, specializing in 18th, 19th, and 20th century British Literature and critical theory.
This event is free and open to the public. For further information, call the Higgins School of Humanities at 508-793-7479.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition free for eligible students.
Jane Salerno
Assistant Director, Media Relations
Clark University
(508) 793-7554
jsalerno@clarku.edu
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