African American studies

Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary and Garden Arts (website) got there first, nonetheless I’m thrilled to share the news that Prof. Elizabeth Abel released Odd Affinities : Virginia Woolf’s Shadow Genealogies with the University of Chicago Press this year.

cover of odd affinities with a black and white image of Virginia Woolf sitting, looking wistfully at the camera. — Abel’s Odd Affinities (2024).

Prof. Abel (faculty page) teaches with the UC Berkeley English Department. They teach courses on Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group as well as broader overviews of 19th and 20th century English literatures. This fall, they are leading courses “Memoir and Memory” as well as on graduate readings and special study.

In Odd Affinities, Prof. Abel discusses Woolf’s influence beyond a female tradition, looking at echoes of Woolf work in four major writers from diverse cultural contexts: Nella Larsen, James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, and W. G. Sebald. Looking at those “odd affinities,” Abel looks at how “Woolf’s career and the transnational modernist genealogy was constituted by her elusive and shifting presence.”

You can access Abel’s book through the UC Library Search, where you can access it online and download the fulltext.

Date: February 9th, 2022

Day: Thursday

Time: 11 am to 12 noon PST

Please register here: http://ucberk.li/black-history-month-2023-event

Opening Remarks:

Olufemi “Femi” Ogundele

Associate Vice Chancellor of Enrollment Management

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions

Confirmed Speakers:

Professor Ula Y. Taylor

Professor & 1960 Chair of Undergraduate Education

African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley

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Professor Nitasha Sharma

Director, Asian American Studies Program; Co-Director, Council for Race and Ethnic Studies

Professor of Asian American Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University

Associate Editor, American Quarterly

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Professor Roopika Risam

Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, where she is part of the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster.

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Professor Kelly Baker Josephs

Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Digital Humanities, Department of English, University of Miami

Both Professors Risam and Josephs will speak about the Digital Black Atlantic project.

Tag: African American studies

Prof. Elizabeth Abel Talks Odd Affinities and Virginia Woolf

Black History Month Celebration at UC Berkeley Library on Thursday, February 9, 2022 (11 am to noon PST)