[English-undergrad] Emily Elvoid's 2026 Lindon Barrett Memorial Award Talk, Tuesday at 4pm

[Christy Gray]

Please join us for a presentation by Emily Elvoid, the 2026 recipient of
the Lindon Barrett Award in Black Studies.

The presentation will take place on November 17 at 4pm in HMNSS 2212.

Emily Elvoid (she/her) is a fifth year ph.d candidate in UCR from
University of La Verne (2018) and her MA in English Literature with an
emphasis on Modernism at John Carroll University (2020). Her current
research focus is 20th century Black American Literature with an emphasis
on Problematic Narratives and its potential gaps within literary archives
due to problematic issues of minorization of BIPOC and other blackness.

"*A Matter of Time*" asks whether the temporal categories applying within
the literary archive work toward cohesive units of study or arbitrary
divisions that disproportionately minoritize Black people. This paper
argues that by thoroughly tracing the movement into modern literature,
scholars also can more thoroughly trace the movement into modern literature
of multi-ethnic and marginalized units. In tracing this movement, I turn to
Frances E. W. Harper's lola Leroy (1892) and its experimentation with the
movement into modernity to explicitly acknowledge its Blackness. In using lola
Leroy to challenge the movement into literary modernity, I believe
scholarship works towards an archive that is more representative of its
ideology.


Christy L. Gray—Administrative Assistant III & Event Coordinator
University of California, Riverside | English and Philosophy
900 University Ave., HMNSS 1220B, Riverside, California 92521
office (951) 827-1456 or ext. 21456

email: christy.gray at ucr.edu
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