Please join us for a Winter colloquium dedicated to Exploratory Translation, hosted by Professors Jennifer Scappettone and Haun Saussy.

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021, 6 pm CST on Zoom

Keynote speaker: John Keene

Napoleon Rivers, Black Studies & Translation as (Anti-Racist) Activism

Moderated by Jennifer Scappettone (Associate Professor, University of Chicago English, Creative Writing, Romance Languages and Literatures, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality)

Please view the event’s live stream on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8edWuK2F0A

If you are interested, we have compiled some suggested readings for the event: https://voices.uchicago.edu/exploratorytranslation2021/2021/02/25/suggested-reading-for-napoleon-rivers-black-studies-translation-as-anti-racist-activism/

John Keene is the author and co-author of a handful of books, including the award-winning collection Counternarratives and the forthcoming collection Punks. He has received many honors, including a 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize and a 2018 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. His translation projects include poetry, fiction and essays from Portuguese, French and Spanish, among them the Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer. He chairs the Department of African American and African Studies, is Distinguished Professor of English and African American Studies, and also teaches in the Rutgers-Newark MFA in Creative Writing Program at Rutgers University-Newark.