(Zoom) Hurst Professor: Nazera Sadiq Wright

(Zoom) Hurst Professor: Nazera Sadiq Wright

Nazera Sadiq Wright is the Associate Professor of English, African American, and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. She will be presenting her lecture, "Frances E. W. Harper's Library Ticket," followed by a brief Q&A with the audience.

Professor Wright is the author of Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century (University of Illinois Press, 2016), which won the 2018 Children’s Literature Association’s Honor Book Award for Outstanding Book of Literary Criticism. Her Digital Humanities project, DIGITAL GI(RL)S: Mapping Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century documents the cultural activities of black girls living in Philadelphia in the nineteenth century. In 2019, she was elected to the American Antiquarian Society. Fellowships through the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the American Philosophical Society funded archival research for her second book, Early African American Women Writers and Their Libraries.

Read more about Professor Wright on her page at the University of Kentucky.

Get her book, Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century, here.

To join the Zoom call, on Thursday, April 20th at 4:00pm (Central), please click the link below:

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/95477255494?pwd=bkI4bGVFUG1lTWdaNmhFTlhDOUhFQT09

Meeting ID: 954 7725 5494
Passcode: 762874