Antiracism and Graduate Education: Commitments and Challenges

Antiracism and Graduate Education: Commitments and Challenges

English Friday, March 11, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Virtual

Antiracism: Communities + Collaborations presents an event co-sponsored by the Graduate Studies Office and the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies. Through this event, we hope to generate space for conversation among departmental faculty administrators and graduate students about our curricular and pedagogical investments in antiracism and inclusion--what we have tried to do and what we could do better. ENGL 101 and ENGL 601 have been revised and reimagined in recent years to make the topic and praxis of anti-racism and inclusion more central to our educational work. However, this work, of course, is ongoing, incomplete, variously experienced by each of us as teachers and scholars and by all of us collectively, and open to revision. More importantly, we hope to use this event to give our graduate students a chance to talk about their own experiences in the classroom as both a student and a teacher at UMD.

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Panelists

GerShun Avilez is Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies. He is the author, most recently, of Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire (Illinois).

Fredrick Cherry, Jr. is a PhD candidate in the English Department.

Tita Chico is Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies. She is the author, most recently, of The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment (Stanford).

Elizabeth Dinneny is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Maryland. Her research considers the role of architecture in the orientation of gendered and racialized subjects and objects in U.S. literature.

Jess Enoch is Professor of English and Director of the Academic Writing Program. She is the author, most recently, of Domestic Occupations: Spatial Rhetorics and Women's Work (Southern Illinois).

Nat McGartland is a PhD student working in digital studies and the history of the book. She is particularly interested in the affordances of technology—both print and digital media—and our affective responses to its material and visual properties. Nat teaches introductory-level writing and media studies.