Thadious Davis, the Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University will give a lecture, "Raced Space and the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois's New World Social Geography," on Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Her appearance is part of Hamilton's commemoration of Black History Month.
Davis is the author of several books, including Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled, and Faulkner's 'Negro': Art and the Southern Context. She was a Du Bois Institute Fellow at Harvard University and has received the Anna Julia Cooper Award for Feminist Scholarship from Spelman College and the College Language Association Award for Creative Scholarship.
The lecture is being sponsored by Hamilton's department of Africana Studies, the President's office, and the Black Student Union.
