Maurice Wallace Presents "King's Vibrato"

Maurice Wallace
Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, Duke University

presents

"King's Vibrato"

in conversation with

Louise Meintjes
Associate Professor of Music, Duke University

Duke University
January 13, 2011 5-7pm
Friedl 225

For Colored Girls: A Town Hall Gathering

For Colored Girls

A Town Hall Meeting
w/ the Department of African & African-American Studies

featuring Professors

Wahneema Lubiano
Tarshia Stanley
William "Sandy" Darity
Maurice Wallace
Jennifer Brody
Mark Anthony Neal


November 16, 2010 | 7:00 PM
The Mary Lou Williams Center
Duke University
919.684.3814

Office Hours with Maurice Wallace on Prison in African-American Literature

Maurice Wallace is an associate professor of English and African and African American studies at Duke University. In this live "Office Hours" webcast November 5, 2010, he discusses how prison has been portrayed in -- and how it has shaped -- African-American literature. He is joined by Patrick Alexander, a Duke graduate student in English, who for the last four summers has taught a literature class at a local prison.

In Conversation: Fred Moten & Maurice Wallace

Duke English Presents
African-American Literature, Culture & Theory
Works-in-Progress Seminar, 2010-2011

Fred Moten, Associate Professor of English, Duke University will present from his upcoming work "Black Kant" in conversation with Maurice Wallace, Associate Professor of English & African American Studies, Duke University.

Thursday, September 16, 2010 from 5-7pm, Friedl 225

Please RSVP with ashon.crawley@gmail.com in order to receive a copy of the reading preceding the conversation.

Panel Discussion: Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
Panel Discussion

Thursday, October 15, 2009
7:30 PM

The Mary Lou Williams Center
Duke University

Join Dr. Maurice Wallace and Dr. Mark Anthony Neal for a panel discussion on Spike Lee's film, Do The Right Thing on the 20th Anniversary of the film's release.

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A 1995 Duke PhD, Maurice Wallace has also taught at in the departments of English and African and Afro-American Studies at Yale University. Author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995, his recent teachings and writings have turned to literature and visual culture, with particular emphases on autobiography, realism, and the visual technologies of race and gender.

Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. He holds a Doctorate in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Neal has appeared in several documentaries including Byron Hurt’s acclaimed Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (2006), John Akomfrah’s Urban Soul (2004) and the BBC’s Soul Deep: the Story of Black Popular Music (2005). A frequent commentator for National Public Radio Neal also contributes to several on-line media outlets, including The Root.com (Washington Post Interactive)