Dr. Mary Helen Washington Diversity Lecture
“Make It Red: Black Left Literary Modernism of the 1950s”
Friday, February 27, 2015 – 1:30-3:00pm
Thompson Library Campus Reading Room Floor 11
Dr. Mary Helen Washington’s lecture will focus on her newest book, The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s (Columbia University Press, 2014). Dr. Washington was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She has taught at the University of Detroit, St. John College of Cleveland, Harvard Divinity School, Wellesley College, Mills College, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and is currently Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Washington’s research interests include African Americans, the African Diaspora, American Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and African American Literature. She is the editor of Black-Eyed Susans: Classic Stories by Black Women Writers; Midnight Birds: Stories of Contemporary Black Women Writers; Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women; and Memory of Kin: Stories of Family by Black Writers.
This event is sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries and the Department of African American & African Studies. Co-sponsors: Department of Comparative Studies; Department of English Diversity and Inclusion and Lecture and Events Committees; the Humanities Institute; and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.