GerShun Avilez, Julius Fleming, Chad Infante, Marisa Parham, Rion Scott, Cecilia Shelton, and Mary Helen Washington (moderator)
The Center's Antiracism Series hosted, on 30 September 2020, the Africana/Black Studies Colloquium's inaugural webinar, "African American Studies Now."
This public conversation about the place of African American Studies at UMD English and in the world today features departmental faculty members: GerShun Avilez (contemporary African American literature and visual cultures); Julius Fleming (African diasporic literatures and cultures); Chad Infante (Black and Indigenous US and Caribbean cultures); Marisa Parham (Director of African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative); Rion Scott (creative writing, fiction); Cecilia Shelton (technical and professional communication with emphasis on digital and cultural rhetorics); and moderator Distinguished University Professor Mary Helen Washington (20th and 21st century African American literature).
