Humanities Forum Event: Linked Fates and Great Expectations
Part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 · 7 - 8:30 PM
Linked Fates and Great Expectations: Revisiting Post-Colonial Africa and African-American Life Through Diasporic Literature
Presented by Dinaw Mengestu
MacArthur Fellow, acclaimed novelist, and Professor of English, Brooklyn College
The author of three novels, Dinaw Mengestu was named a "20 under 40" writer by The New Yorker magazine and received the National Book Award Foundation's "5 under 35" Award for his debut novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. A 2012 MacArthur Genius Award winner, Mengestu also received a 2006 fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and Columbia University's M.F.A. program in fiction.
Sponsored by the Africana Studies Department and co-sponsored by
the Dresher Center for the Humanities; the English Department; the
History Department; the Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication Department; the Music Department; the Global Studies Program; the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; the Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs; and the Office of Undergraduate Education.