Tuesday, April 1, 2025
4:30pm
Convocation Hall
The University of the South's Department of English and Creative Writing presents The 31st Stacy Allen Haines Lecture!
This year, our Haines Lecturer will be Black Studies, Feminist, and English literary critic Hortense Spillers. She will deliver the 31st Haines Lecture, entitled, "Tales Told Out of School: Race, History, and Public Relations," on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. in Convocation Hall. A reception will follow.
Hortense Spillers is one of the giants of literary criticism, Black Feminism, and Black Studies. Currently the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor (Emerita), and Distinguished Research Professor at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Spillers's most famous essay, "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" (1987) permanently changed Black Studies, and continues to be a touchstone in multiple fields. It is part of a collection of similarly powerful and influential essays, Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (2003). Her work continues to speak to wide audiences, inside and outside the academy.
This year, our Haines Lecturer will be Black Studies, Feminist, and English literary critic Hortense Spillers. She will deliver the 31st Haines Lecture, entitled, "Tales Told Out of School: Race, History, and Public Relations," on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. in Convocation Hall. A reception will follow.
Hortense Spillers is one of the giants of literary criticism, Black Feminism, and Black Studies. Currently the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor (Emerita), and Distinguished Research Professor at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Spillers's most famous essay, "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" (1987) permanently changed Black Studies, and continues to be a touchstone in multiple fields. It is part of a collection of similarly powerful and influential essays, Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (2003). Her work continues to speak to wide audiences, inside and outside the academy.
