James Baldwin Distinguished Lecture on Literary and Social Criticism: Dr. Maurice Wallace
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Dr. Maurice Wallace will deliver the annual James Baldwin Distinguished Lecture on Literary and Social Criticism entitled “On James Baldwin, Moral Leadership, and the Lost Art of Eloquent Speech.”
The James Baldwin Distinguished Lecture on Literary and Social Criticism is an annual event dedicated to exploring the intersections of literature, culture, and social critique in the spirit of James Baldwin.
Rutgers Professor and Associate Chair of English, Maurice Wallace, PhD, will speak on the topic “On James Baldwin, Moral Leadership, and the Lost Art of Eloquent Speech”.
Dr. Wallace is the author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775-1995, and King’s Vibrato: Blackness, Modernism and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
A book signing will follow the lecture.
The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
This event is co-sponsored by the James Baldwin Distinguished Lecture on Literary and Social Criticism, the Department of African, Black and Caribbean Studies, College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging.
For more information, please contact the Department of African, Black and Caribbean Studies at 516.877.4980.