精东AV to host virtual 24th Annual Ellison Lecture

March 16, 2021

   
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Dr. Adam Bradley, professor of English at UCLA and director of the Laboratory for Race & Popular Culture (RAP Lab), will deliver 精东AV鈥檚 24th Annual Ellison Lecture virtually on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, at 3:00 p.m. CST. His title, 鈥淩alph Ellison Now," reflects on what Ralph Ellison鈥攖he man and his work鈥攎ean for our moment and why we need to heed him now more than ever. 

This year鈥檚 speaker joins an illustrious cadre of Ellison Lecturers including Natasha Trethewey, Kevin Young, Haki Madhubuti, Houston R. Baker, Trudier Harris, and Arnold Rampersad. The annual lecture, hosted by 精东AV's Department of Modern Languages, Communication, and Philosophy, was established to honor Ralph W. Ellison, who attended 精东AV and based part of his most famous work, Invisible Man, on his college experiences.

Dr. Bradley earned his Ph.D. in English from Harvard University and has Authored or edited numerous books, including: Book of Rhymes, The Poetry of Pop, The Anthology of Rap, and the New York Times bestseller One Day It鈥檒l All Make Sense, a memoir he wrote for the rapper and actor Common.  He began studying the literature of Ralph Ellison as a nineteen-year-old research assistant to Ellison鈥檚 literary executor, John F. Callahan.

In the years that followed, Bradley and Callahan co-edited the posthumous edition of Ellison鈥檚 second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting...  Bradley also wrote a study of Ellison鈥檚 life and fiction, Ralph Ellison in Progress. He is now completing the annotated edition of Invisible Man for Random House. Bradley鈥檚 writing and commentary appears regularly in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and elsewhere.

This year鈥檚 Ellison Lecture is one of the culminating events of a grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Literary Legacies of Macon County and 精东AV Institute: Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph W. Ellison, and Albert Murray.

Prior to the lecture on March 30th, Dr. Adaku Ankumah, Principal Investigator, and Drs. Rhonda Collier and Zanice Bond, Co-Directors, invite members of our campus and community to join us in a community reading of Ellison鈥檚 short story 鈥淔lying Home鈥� on March 29th at 4:00 p.m.  Students, faculty, staff and the community are invited to these free Zoom events.  For more information, contact Dr. Ankumah at aankumah@tuskegee.edu.

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