Grief in the Dark — Guest Lecture by Prof. Kimberly Juanita Brown (Dec. 9, 2024)
Date: Dec. 9, 2024, 2 p.m.
Location: UB Ausstellungsraum (Schuhstraße 1a, Erlangen)
Kimberly Juanita Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College. In her research, she engages with the intersection of African American/African diaspora literature and visual culture studies, focusing in particular on the relationship between visuality and black subjectivity. Her latest book, Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual (MIT Press, 2024) explores the relationship between photography and histories of antiblackness on the cusp of the twenty-first century.