Event time:
Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 5:00pm
Location:
Olin Memorial Library, Wesleyan University
252 Church St
Middletown, CT
06459
Event description:
Meeting No. 1435
Lois Brown, Class of 1958 Distinguished Professor, African American Studies Program/Department of English, Wesleyan University Read the minutes from this meeting.
Lois Brown came to Wesleyan in the fall of 2012 from Mount Holyoke College where she was Elizabeth Small Professor of English. At Mount Holyoke, where she began teaching in 1998, she was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004, and was Director of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts for five years. A literary historian, she focuses on culture, identity, race, and gender in 18th and 19th century African American writing. She is author of three books and numerous articles, essays, reviews, exhibition guides, and has curated several exhibitions. Recently, she served as a series advisor and contributor to the PBS American Experience documentary “The Abolitionists.” She earned her B.A. from Duke University and her Ph.D. from Boston College.
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