[Englecturers] Talk by Eden Osucha

[Susan Brown]

You are invited to a talk by Eden Osucha on Thursday, February 1st at 1:30
in the department conference room 2212.  


"Intimate Racializations: Privacy Law, Public Culture, and African American
Literature at the Turn of the Century."

Eden Osucha


Eden Osucha is the Nancy L. Buc Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University's
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. She is a PhD candidate
in English at Duke University and currently completing her dissertation,
"The Subject of Privacy: Race, Rights and Intimate Personhood in Modern
American Literature and Law."  Her dissertation project argues that the
late-nineteenth century re-invention of individual privacy as a new category
of rights claims--in both American legal thought and the popular
imagination--is linked to anxieties about the era’s simultaneous
transformations in the social logics of race, gender, and class.  This
argument is rooted in a critical analysis of key works in early modern
African American literature, focusing on issues of citizenship, consumerism,
gendered representations, and racial identity formations.  Her current
research, as a fellow of the Pembroke Center, carries the dissertation’s
arguments forward through the era of privacy’s constitutional articulations,
to examine how racial logics have shaped this right and the forms of
gendered and sexed citizenship it has produced.


Thursday, February 1st

1:30-3:00 pm

Department of English Conference room, CHASS 2212

Light refreshments will be served.


Susan Brown
Department of English
Management Services Officer
ph:(951)827-1456
fax:(951)827-3967
 

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