Southern Gothic Lecture Series: “Jesmyn Ward’s Ecogothic”  

The O'Connor Institute is kicking off the Inaugural Southern Gothic Lectures Series! Join us for this interdisciplinary series of discussions among the fields of literature, environmental studies and southern studies.

Teresa A. Goddu is professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She's the author of Gothic America: Narrative, History and Nation (Columbia University Press) and Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America (University of Pennsylvania Press). Her work has appeared in American Literary History, Book History, MELUS, African American Review, Common-Place, South Atlantic Quarterly, Studies in American Fiction and other venues. She is the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Senior Specialist Fulbright award. Her current research focuses on the environmental humanities, specifically contemporary climate fiction. She will discuss the fiction of Jesmyn Ward, author of "Let Us Descend," "Sing Unburied Sing", "Men We Reaped," "Salvage the Bones," "Where the Line Bleeds," and other writings. 

Refreshments will be provided thanks to the Office of the Provost.