English Department Events
Madhu Dubey presents "Black to the Past: Speculative Fictions of Slavery."
The members of the Contemporary Arts and Society working group are pleased to announce that Madhu Dubey, Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will present her research as the fifth speaker in the Department of English's Speakers Series on Monday, March 10, at 3:30 pm in 1210 McClung Tower.
Professor Dubey's talk is titled "Black to the Past: Speculative Fictions of Slavery."
As a specialist in African American literature, cultural studies, feminist theory, and postmodern theory, Professor Dubey is the author of numerous articles and two books, "Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism" (University of Chicago P, 2003) and "Black Woman Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic" (Indiana UP, 1994). She has taught at Northwestern University, Brown University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and has served as a member of the PMLA Advisory Committee, as a member of the selection committee for the MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize for best scholarly work in African-American literature or culture, and as a member of the editorial board for the C.L.R. James Review.