The English Department at Duke University.
Durham, NC
Joined November 2012
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"The arts and humanities are a small piece of the AI pie, but they are our piece of the pie."
@TomComitta talks to @AarthiVadde about "We the Platform," and reading in the Web 2.0 era: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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For #NCTriangle Folk, please join me for the local launch of 'Save a Seat for Me: Notes on American Fatherhood' (@SimonBooks) at @FlyleafBooks in Chapel Hill, NC on August 27th. I'll be in conversation with my former @wunc #BackChannel co-host Natalie Bullock Brown.
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My Forever Dean @ProfHolloway shares her backstory and her singular Brilliance with @jdrabinski on the @blstpodcast
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… @Duke_English @DukeTrinity
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📚 @DukePress at 100! Publishing Fundamentals: How Dissertations Become Book Manuscripts
with Elizabeth Ault, Senior Editor; Ken Wissoker, Senior Executive Editor, both of @DukePress, and moderator Dr. Chris Ouma, @Duke_English
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Today @fhi_duke: celebrating the career of Tom Ferraro, longtime Americanist @Duke_English and virtuosic scholar of ethnicity, race, literature, and culture across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Swing by at 2:00pm EST to share your stories. english.duke.edu/events/pane…
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✨We are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Pauli Murray Book Prize is Dr. Jarvis C. McInnis, author of Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South! 👏🏾👏🏾
@ColumbiaUP @DukeU @Duke_English @ProfMcInnis
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Enjoyed discussing my book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION, on the award-winning Black Studies video podcast @LeftOfBlack! Grateful for my @Duke_English colleague, Christopher Ouma, who engaged my book w/ the utmost rigor & generosity! Full episode here: tinyurl.com/y8rvhd4c
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NEW ON YOUTUBE: duke.is/b/m7he
In his new book, "Afterlives of the Plantation," publ. by @ColumbiaUP, author @ProfMcInnis rethinks Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute as a site of new ideas about Black life, labor, and freedom. He is Assoc. Prof. at @Duke_English
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#HappyBlackHistoryMonth! A highlight of the first leg of my book tour was discussing AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION w/ horticulturalist Richard M. Smith @ New York Botanical Garden! In this clip, I discuss Tuskegee’s “black worldmaking.” Full convo here: shorturl.at/ODMq4
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📚Please join us on Friday, January 30th at 12 Noon Eastern for a virtual conversation with Prof. Jarvis McInnis about his new book, _Afterlives of the Plantation_. @ColumbiaUP @Duke_English
👉🏾Follow the link below to register:
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NEW ARTICLE: fhi.duke.edu/news/julianne-w…
@juliannewerlin, Assoc. Prof. of @Duke_English, examines the lives of roughly 600 writers from the Renaissance to link mortality statistics to literary immortality––the best reason to compose poetry or to publish books was to cheat the grave.
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Enjoyed this latest interview about my book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION, on Chasing Leviathan podcast! Here, I’m discussing how Black people used photography to counter anti-blackness in popular culture (e.g., blackface minstrelsy). Full episode here: tinyurl.com/p5d7eph5
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I'm pleased to share that my interview on THE BLACK STUDIES PODCAST has just dropped! If you'd like to hear some of my thinking on the past, present, and future of Black Studies, hit the link below to give it a listen. #BlackStudies #blackstudy @ColumbiaUP
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I'm excited for my next book event @Princeton! I'll be in conversation with my dear friend & fellow @Columbia alum, Autumn Womack. If you'll be in/near Princeton on Monday, October 20th, please join us at 5:00-6:30 in Rabonowitz A17. Thanks @PrincetonAAS & English for having me!
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I was honored to be inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Scholars @Morehouse College. The Collegium recognizes “individuals [who] have demonstrated and are evolving toward great achievement in their chosen vocation, a profound commitment to their community…
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Looking forward to participating in the first-ever Petersburg Book Fest, hosted by Resist Books, an independent black-owned bookstore! I’ll be on the “Beyond Slavery” panel w/ @michaelharriot @rtwilliams16 Elvatrice Parker Belsches & Susana Morris! Join us
Saturday, Sept. 13th!
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This is the excited face of a first-time author seeing my new book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION, in “the wild” for the first time! And in the wonderful company of Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues,” no less! Thank you @PassCBooks! 🙏🏾
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My first book talk & signing in #DurhamNC was a success! The audience was deeply engaged & we SOLD OUT of books! We had a rich discussion re: placemaking & migration, Black land stewardship, & how to build community in ways that promote care & self-determination w/o paternalism.
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In this special episode of @LeftOfBlack, host @NewBlackMan is joined by @DukeU Profs. @JRWinters77 and Franklin Cason, Jr. and artist Lois Deoatch who discuss the musical, spiritual and filmmaking dimensions of Ryan Coogler's #Sinners
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📚@DukeAAAS's Tsitsi Ella Jaji reads original poetry at the most recent iteration of "Jazz Vespers" curated by @LukeAPowery, Dean of @DukeChapel
