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Education
PhD, Cornell University, in English, Dissertation, &#;Aesthetic and Ideological Radicalism in the &#;s: The Fiction of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes.&#; Dissertation Director: J. Saunders Redding. Areas of Specialization: African American Literature, African and Caribbean Literature, 19th Century American Literature and Culture
MPS, Cornell University: Africana Studies. Thesis: “Blackness, Womanness and Art: Towards a Theory of Black Feminism.” Thesis director: Roseanne Pope Bell
MA, Northwestern University: English.
BA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: English and Journalism
- Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone (research semester)
- Summer Institutes: University of Iowa (Charles Davis, Richard Corrigan); University of Missouri, Kansas City (Robert Farnsworth)
Faculty Appointments
- — University Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Kansas
- — University Distinguished Professor, Department of English, University of Kansas
- — Professor of English, University of Kansas
- — Langston Hughes Visiting Professor, English Department, University of Kansas
- — Associate/Full Professor of English & African-American Studies, Northeastern University. Promoted
- — Visiting Associate Professor of African American Studies, Harvard
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About the Event
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a
bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second
generation full of courage issue forth; let a people
loving freedom come to growth.—Margaret Walker, "For My People"
Written by Maryemma Graham, Distinguished Professor of English at KU, The House Where My Soul Lives provides a full account of activist and artist Margaret Walker's life and new interpretations of her writings. Join us for a discussion of this luminary title from an esteemed local scholar on May 4, 7 p.m., at the Raven. Graham will be in conversation with Dr. Randal Maurice Jelks, with time for an audience Q&A and book signing at the end.
About the Book
This first biography of poet and writer Margaret Walker () offers a comprehensive close reading of a pillar in American culture for a majority of the 20th century. Without defining herself as a radical or even a feminist, Walker followed the precepts of both. She promoted the idea of the artist of tradition and social change, a public intellectual and an institution builder. Among the first to recognize the impact of black women in literature, Walker became a chief archite