History, Romance and Real Black Writers
Stephanie Brown
discusses author Frank Yerby in Faculty Lecture Series
The Ohio State University at Newark continues its 2006 – 2007 Faculty Lecture Series on Thursday February 1st with a lecture by Stephanie Brown, Ph.D. William L. MacDonald, Ph.D., Dean and Director of Ohio State Newark, hosts the series. The lecture will begin at 7:00 pm in the Reese Center Ballroom, and will include a question and answer session. A reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public.
In a lecture titled History, romance and “real” black writers: the mysterious disappearance of Frank Yerby from the African-American literary canon, Brown will discuss Frank Yerby, a black novelist whose work has for years been overlooked by scholars unimpressed by Yerby’s use of the “costume novel” genre and put off by his unclear and sometimes contradictory political and artistic stances. Dr. Brown will examine how the best-selling African-American writer of all time found himself out of favor and out of print, and why we need now to rediscover him.
Dr. Brown is an assistant professor of English at Ohio State Newark. Her current book project, Lesser Lights: Retracing the Margins in Postwar African-American Fiction, focuses primarily on marginalized African-American writers of the 1950s, but she has written and lectured on a variety of other subjects ranging from contemporary popular culture to translation theory to blaxploitation film.
The final lecture in the 2006-2007 series will take place on May 3, 30 Years of Hope, by Sara Staats, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Ohio State Newark.
Please RSVP to 740.364-9517 or by email to dshirek@cotc.edu. For more information, please call 740.364-9635.