A lecture by Dr. Teresa Goddu (Vanderbilt University)
Co-sponsored by ENGL, AHVA, HIST, and the iSchool
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Buchanan Tower 323
1866 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada
“Fugitive Sight: African American Panoramas of Slavery and Freedom” examines how African Americans—through both word and image—deployed the visual mode of the panorama to represent both slavery and freedom. Discussing slave narratives, pictorial newspaper mastheads, and large-scale panoramas, Dr. Goddu’s lecture will show how African American cultural producers capitalized on this new mass visual form to claim cultural authority and envision emancipation.
Teresa A. Goddu is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Vanderbilt University. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, she is the author of Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation (Columbia UP) and Selling Antislavery: U.S. Abolition and the Rise of Mass Media (forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Press). Her work has appeared in American Literary History, Book History, MELUS, Common-Place, South Atlantic Quarterly, Studies in American Fiction, and other venues. She is the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Senior Specialist Fulbright award.