Professor Nellie Yvonne
McKay Will Present Paumanok Lecture
Brooklyn, N.Y. - Distinguished University of Wisconsin, Madison, professor Nellie Yvonne McKay will give a talk on "African-American Women Writers: Legacy and Influence on American Literature" at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus on Thursday, April 11 at 5 p.m. in the Zeckendorf Health Sciences Center, Room 107. Sponsored by the Campus's English department, the annual Paumanok lecture is free and open to the public. McKay is the Evjue Bascom Professor of American and African-American Literature in the English and Afro-American Studies departments of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she has taught since 1978. She obtained her B.A. from Queens College, CUNY, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is on the advisory and editorial boards of "African American Review," "American Literary History," "Legacy: A Journal of Nineteenth Century American Women Writers," "Contemporary Literature" and "Feminist Studies." Books she has edited or co-edited include "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs; "Beloved – A Casebook"; "Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison" and "Norton Anthology of Afro–American Literature," with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Her recent honors and awards include election to membership in the Wisconsin Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Graduate Students Citation for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, honorary membership in the UW-Madison chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and a MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature [Association] of the United States) Annual Award for contributions to multi–ethnic literature. Long Island University's lecture series on American culture
and literature, "Starting from Paumanok," carries the title
of one of Walt Whitman's most celebrated poems, and honors the University's
connection with Long Island's poet laureate. "Paumanok" is a
Native American word for Long Island. The series is supported by a grant
from the John P. McGrath Fund.
For more information, call professor Huma Ibrahim at (718) 488-1675. |
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