Current Events
March 13-17, 2023: Hess Scholar-in-Residence Barbara Smith
Join us in a week-long event with author, activist, and independent scholar, Barbara Smith! She has played a groundbreaking role in opening up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender. She has been defining African American women's literary tradition and building Black women's studies and Black feminism in the United States since the 1960s.