April
2 ,
2004
Feminist
Scholar Laura Harris to Read at Smith
Meridians—feminism,
race, transnationalism magazine will present Notes
from a Welfare Queen in the Ivory Tower: Poetry, Fiction, Letters,
and Essays,
a reading with Laura Harris, at 4:30 PM, Tuesday, April 6,
in the Neilson Library Browsing Room, Smith College. The event
is free and open to the public. A book selling and signing
will follow.
Harris is an associate professor of English, world literature,
and black studies at Pitzer College. She received her Ph.D. from
the University of California, San Diego. Harris publishes in
the areas of literary criticism, feminist and queer studies,
black studies, African diasporic studies, fiction, and poetry.
From the book jacket:
"Harris writes with the irreverence and drama usually associated
with Black drag queens. she does not fear being dubbed an angry
black Bitch … the dismissive moniker is an acronym for
Black Intellectual Tenaciously Critiquing Humanity … Harris
embraces Fredrick Douglass’s 19th-century maxim, "agitate,
agitate, agitate" as a guiding mantra steeling her against
the daily assaults to the mind, body, and spirit of a Black,
lesbian, single-mother, working-class academic poet."
—
Phyllis J. Jackson, Ph.D., Filmmaker
For further information, please contact Meridians at 413-585-3388
or meridians@smith.edu.
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