Monday, February 19, 2018, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EST

Dwight A. McBride, Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of African American Studies and Distinguished Affiliated Professor of English

"Phillis Wheatley:  Poetics and Politics"

Provost Dwight A. McBride, a leading scholar in race and literary studies, currently is working on a volume about Phillis Wheatley, the 18th-century poet who was the first African-American to publish a book.  He will share insights from that work with us today.