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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.

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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.

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