LGBT Lecture Series: Samuel R. Delany, “Reading and Conversation with Robert Reid-Pharr”

Samuel R. Delany is professor of English and creative writing and director of the graduate creative writing program at Temple University. Delany is an award-winning author with over twenty novels and several books of stories, essays, criticism, and autobiography in a career that spans nearly 40 years. He will be reading from his new novel, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.

Robert Reid-Pharr is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City of New York. He is the author of Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual and of a recent article in American Literature, “Clean: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany’s Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand.”

Note: This is the keynote event for the DC Queer Studies Symposium, “Delany at 70,” April 20, 2012, at the University of Maryland.