Context brings the brightest minds to your living room with perspective-shifting online lectures.
The Women of the Harlem Renaissance with Dr. Maria Seger
No events are scheduled at this time. Want to be notified when it’s back? Click the blue button to the right and we’ll notify you.
Maria Seger is an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she researches and teaches US, Black, and ethnic literatures and cultures and critical race and ethnic studies. Her work appears in Callaloo, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Studies in American Naturalism, and her edited collection, Reading Confederate Monuments, is under contract with the University Press of Mississippi. She earned her PhD from the University of Connecticut in 2016.
Not suitable for children under age 13 (sensitive content).
90 minutes, including a 30 minute Q&A.
This was really an amazing conversation. I have done several of these with Dr. Seger and they always have such a unique perspective on American history and literature. My educational background was in the sciences, and so I very much appreciate the various conversations that Dr. Seger has led on both great American literary artists, as well as certain racial events or time periods in American history. They seem as relevant today in many ways as they did when they first occurred.
Dr Seger very clearly loves this subject and provides a wonderfully entertaining and informative presentation. She brings small details and little known information to your attention which make this class a lot of fun. I highly recommend.
Guest did not leave comment
Informative, engaging presentation on women writers, artists, & singers of the Harlem Renaissance. We had an opportunity to ask questions at the end, which inspired an enlightening discussion of the historical material and its relevance today.
Learned a lot and due to small group size, had a fabulous conversation afterward. Her remarks stirred childhood memories (I grew up in Harlem) and left me hungering for more information. Would be interesting to compare this time period to the present. She’d light on little known part of HERstory.