Writers@Grinnell & Scholars’ Convocation with Shanna Benjamin
Thursday, April 22, Noon
Grinnell Beginnings: The Undergraduate Origins of Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay.
Scholars’ Convocation with Shanna Benjamin on Thursday, April 22, at 7 p.m.
Shanna Greene Benjamin is a biographer and scholar who studies the literature, lives, and archives of Black women. She has published on African American literature and Black women’s intellectual history in African American Review, MELUS, and PMLA, Studies in American Fiction. She graduated from Johnson C. Smith University, a historically Black college, and received her master’s in Afro-American Studies and doctorate in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives with her family in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Registration is required for this WebEx event.