Description
This two-pronged conversation will explore the role of mentorship and research agendas in Premodern Critical Race Studies, as a way to consider what the field can do to ensure its continued vitality.
About the Speakers
Willnide Lindor is Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Cortland. Her research and teaching focus on premodern critical race studies, early modern poetry and drama, metaphysical poetry, and gender studies. Her research centers on the relationship between ventriloquism, rhetoric, and processes of racial formation and identification in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Lindor’s latest publication appears in the journal of English Literary Renaissance.
Miles Grier is Associate Professor of English at Queens College. He is the author of the monograph entitled Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery (University of Virginia Press, 2023) and co-editor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies (Palgrave, 2018). Essays have appeared in William and Mary Quarterly and the volumes Scripturalizing the Human, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race, Shakespeare/Text, and The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race. This historical work seizes upon the stigmatic significance of blackface in Anglo-American performance as alternative to legal and scientific histories of racial ideology.
Zoom Access
This virtual program is free and open to all. The conversation will take place in a Zoom webinar. A link to join the webinar will be posted here closer to the date of the event.