W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture
Location
Performing Arts & Humanities Building : Linehan Concert Hall
Date & Time
November 11, 2015, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Description
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture
Linked Fates and Great Expectations: Revisiting Post-Colonial Africa and African-American Life through Diasporic Literature
Dinaw Mengestu, MacArthur Fellow, acclaimed novelist, and Professor of English, Brooklyn College
The author of three novels, Dinaw Mengestu was named a “20 under 40” writer by The New Yorker magazine and received the National Book Award Foundation's “5 under 35” Award for his debut novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears.
A 2012 MacArthur Genius Award winner, Mengestu also received a 2006
fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is a
graduate of Georgetown University and Columbia University’s MFA program
in fiction.
Sponsored
by the Africana Studies Department and co-sponsored by the Dresher
Center for the Humanities; the English Department; the Office of the
Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; the
Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs; and the Office of
Undergraduate Education.
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