Keynote Luncheon and Address
Presentation Title
This is Our Story: Reclaiming the Middle Passage, Resisting Social Death
Degree Program
Graduate
Major
N/A
Abstract
Tara T. Green is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) and the Linda Arnold Carlisle Excellence Professor of Women's and Gender Studies. She received her bachelor's degree in English from Dillard University in New Orleans and her master's and doctorate in English, with an emphasis in African American literature from Louisiana State University. She served as director of AADS from 2008 to 2016. Before coming to University of North Carolina-Greensboro, she taught at universities in Louisiana and Arizona.
Her research interests include African American autobiographies, 20th century novels, gender studies, Black southern studies, African literature, and the U.S. Black diaspora. She has published numerous articles and made presentations in these areas of research. Her books From the Plantation to the Prison: African American Confinement Literature (Mercer UP, 2008). A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men (U of Missouri P, 2009; winner of 2011 National Council for Black Studies for Outstanding Publication in Africana Studies), Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song (Ohio UP, 2018), reflect her interests in African American literary and interdisciplinary studies. Inspired by her fondness for New Orleans, she is completing a manuscript on Alice Dunbar-Nelson, a writer and activist from New Orleans. In addition to presenting locally and nationally, she has presented her research in England, the Caribbean, and Africa.
Green is the immediate past president of the Langston Hughes Society and serves on the executive committee of South Atlantic Modern Language Association. She enjoys mentoring students and working with community organizations.
Start Date
8-2-2019 12:00 PM
End Date
8-2-2019 1:15 PM
This is Our Story: Reclaiming the Middle Passage, Resisting Social Death
Tara T. Green is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) and the Linda Arnold Carlisle Excellence Professor of Women's and Gender Studies. She received her bachelor's degree in English from Dillard University in New Orleans and her master's and doctorate in English, with an emphasis in African American literature from Louisiana State University. She served as director of AADS from 2008 to 2016. Before coming to University of North Carolina-Greensboro, she taught at universities in Louisiana and Arizona.
Her research interests include African American autobiographies, 20th century novels, gender studies, Black southern studies, African literature, and the U.S. Black diaspora. She has published numerous articles and made presentations in these areas of research. Her books From the Plantation to the Prison: African American Confinement Literature (Mercer UP, 2008). A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men (U of Missouri P, 2009; winner of 2011 National Council for Black Studies for Outstanding Publication in Africana Studies), Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song (Ohio UP, 2018), reflect her interests in African American literary and interdisciplinary studies. Inspired by her fondness for New Orleans, she is completing a manuscript on Alice Dunbar-Nelson, a writer and activist from New Orleans. In addition to presenting locally and nationally, she has presented her research in England, the Caribbean, and Africa.
Green is the immediate past president of the Langston Hughes Society and serves on the executive committee of South Atlantic Modern Language Association. She enjoys mentoring students and working with community organizations.