Queer@King’s is delighted to welcome Professor Dagmawi Woubshet (University of Pennsylvania) to King’s this November!

This is one of two events held at King's by Professor Woubshet. 

About Dagmawi Woubshet: 

A scholar of African American literature and art, Dagmawi Woubshet works at the intersections of African American, LGBTQ, and African studies. These overlapping areas of inquiry inform his scholarship and research, notably his book The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015). He is currently completing his second book, Here Be Saints: James Baldwin’s Late-Style, and the first English translation of Sebhat Gebre Egziabher’s 1966 Amharic novel, ሰባተኛው መላክ Säbatägnaw Mälak [The Seventh Angel]. 

The Lecture:

A novelist, essayist, playwright, and poet, James Baldwin was a writer with an arsenal of artistic talent and moral imagination. His signature style was his prose - startling in its intricate design and depth of perception, and fierce in its determination to dismantle the racial assumptions of the American republic and the English language. Baldwin's literary career spanned four decades, from 1947 to 1987 - a time when the United States and the world witnessed seismic political and cultural shifts, and during which Baldwin's own artistic vision evolved. In this lecture, I address the inextricable link among the central themes in Baldwin's work - love, religion, race, and sexuality - and also show how his perspective on these themes change over time.