2025-26 Events
"While Disguised as a Boy: Tales from Archives of Black Life and Literature in the Nineteenth Century" by visiting scholar Dr. Crystal S. Donkor
Date: Monday, April 6 2026
Location: Murdock 218
This event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Donkor is an Assistant Professor of English, specializing in African American
Literature at Southern Methodist University. Her research interests include nineteenth
and early twentieth century African American literature, African American print culture,
and the digital humanities. Her monograph in progress, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, analyzes
the relationship between pleasure, citizenship, and freedom as represented through
the work of nineteenth and turn of the twentieth century Black women writers. Her
scholarship can be found in the African American Review and the Cambridge Companion
to the Black Body in American Literature.