FULL: A Conversation on Black Girlhood, Fatness, Beauty and Becoming
FULL: A Conversation on Black Girlhood, Fatness, Beauty and Becoming
The Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park is delighted to announce the 2024 Savneet Talwar Lecture, "FULL: A Conversation on Black Girlhood, Fatness, Beauty and Becoming" featuring Dr. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan of Georgetown University and Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson of the University of Maryland.
Dr. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is an associate professor of English at Georgetown University and author of Big Girl—a novel praised by The New York Times as an "achingly beautiful coming-of-age debut" and by Publisher's Weekly as "a treasure."
Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson is professor and chair of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and author of Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America, winner of the James Beard Foundation Award.
The event will take place on Thursday, February 29 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Ulrich Recital Hall in Tawes Hall. All are welcome.
Thanks to the following event co-sponsors at UMD:
- Department of African American and Africana Studies
- Department of English
- Diversity Training and Education (Office of Diversity and Inclusion)
- Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through Humanities
- Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Jiménez-Porter Writers' House
- LGBTQ+ Equity Center (Office of Diversity and Inclusion)
- Office of Undergraduate Studies