Local Americanists: Samantha Pinto, "Difficult Diasporas: The Feminist Aesthetics of Harryette Mullen"
Local Americanists: Samantha Pinto, "Difficult Diasporas: The Feminist Aesthetics of Harryette Mullen"
English | Center for Literary and Comparative Studies | College of Arts and Humanities
Friday, February 21, 2014
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Tawes Hall, 2115
Respondent: Amanda Dykema
Samantha Pinto is an Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. She is the author of Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic (NYU Press, 2013 ), which engages race, gender, and literary aesthetics in 20th- and 21st-Century African Diaspora writing. She is currently at work on a second book project on 18th- and 19th-century black celebrity and human rights, as well as another project that explores ambivalence in feminist thought across African, Postcolonial, American, and Women's and Gender Studies.