African Studies Workshop featuring Evan Mwangi

Date: 

Monday, February 4, 2019, 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Center for African Studies Lounge - 1280 Massachusetts Ave., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA

Evan Mwangi is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. He is the author of, among other works, Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender Sexuality (2009);Translation in African Contexts: Postcolonial Texts, Queer Sexuality, and Cosmopolitan Fluency(2017); and The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature & Posthuman Ethics (forthcoming).​ He is at work on two new monographs: one on global rewritings of Conrad's Heart of Darkness ​and the other on Indian Ocean cultures. He will be presenting: Interspecies Sexual Intimacies in African Literature. Discussant: Parker Shipton

 

A week in advance, the presenter’s paper will be circulated through the Harvard African Studies Workshop listserv. It is assumed that everyone has read the paper before the workshop.  After presentation and commentary, Workshop attendees are invited to engage in critique and discussion, under the moderation of the Workshop Chairs.

ORGANIZER(S):  Harvard University Center for African Studies 
EVENT WEBSITE:  https://africa.harvard.edu/african-studies-workshop-0