During this virtual event, celebrated writer, professor, and teacher Dr. DaMaris B. Hill will bear witness for Black Women and women of color who, while burdened by sexism, racism, and injustice up continue to risk their lives for the sake of our democracy.
Dr. Hill is an Associate Professor of Creative writing, English and African American Studies at the University of Kentucky.
Similar to her creative process, Hill’s scholarly research is interdisciplinary and examines the intersections between artistic criticisms, cultural studies, and digital humanities.
DaMaris B. Hill is the author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland (2020 NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry), and The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, Vi-z?-b?l Teks-ch?rs(Visible Textures).
Dr. Hill will be in conversation with Ajanet Rountree (Program Coordinator of the John Mitchell, Jr. Program), Andy Shallal (CEO and Founder of Busboys and Poets), and Dr. Charles L. Chavis, Jr. (Director of the John Mitchell, Jr. Program and Assistant Professor at the Carter School).
This event is part of the “She Changes Everything” series of the John Mitchell Jr. Program and the A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) series at Busboys and Poets.
Registrants of this FREE event will receive the Zoom link 24 hours before the event.
