(Sub)Aquatic Conversation

• Friday, September 20
• 5:30 PM
• Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine
• 121 Wall Street
• MAP
• FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

m. nourbeSe philip hails from the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, and in all of her work the ocean and its depths play dramatic, if often tragic, roles. Jonathan Howard, a scholar of water himself, joins philip in a wide-ranging conversation about her life and career.

Dr. Jonathan Howard is an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Yale University. His research and teaching broadly interrogate western ideas about race and nature, weighing their entangled contribution to the formation of a modern world in ecological peril while also exploring black expressive culture as an alternative site of ecological thought and practice. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including generous support from the Fulbright Program, The Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Foundation), The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Harrington Fellows Program. His articles can be found or are forthcoming at Callaloo, Souls, and Atlantic Studies. His current book project, Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness, illuminates the abiding relationship between blackness and the oceanic by undertaking a black ecocritical study of the trope of the “deep” in African Diaspora literature.