SCHEDULE
Graduate Student Panel/Q&A – 11:00 am–12:15 am EDT
Nick Cialini, “Turning Over a New Utopian Leaf: Delany and Okorafor’s Futurisms as Revisions of the Formula of Speculative Hope”
Theodora Sakellarides, “Feelings Work: An Examination of Emotional Labor in Black American Women’s Writing”
SaraGrace Stefan, “‘This Is a Place for the Dead’: Specters of Necropolitics in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing”
Refreshments and Break – 12:30 pm–2:00 pm EDT
Keynote Speaker / Discussion – 2:00 pm–3:30 pm EDT
Autumn Womack, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of African American Studies and English
Department of English, Princeton University
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