Join us as Professor Johnson examines Hurston’s development and deployment of dynamic suggestion, how it is embedded in Their Eyes, and the successful reverberation between text and stage that continues to be taken up in contemporary Black women’s 'ways of saying.' This is the final speaker for our Black Culture/ Black Life Series.

About the speaker:

A writer, artist, and dramaturg, Nicole Morris Johnson is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Buffalo. As a researcher and teacher, Morris Johnson specializes in the study of 20th-21st century African American and Caribbean writing, performance, and archives. Her current book project, titled "The Souths in Her: Black Women's Poetics Beyond the Womb Abyss," focuses on the role that movement between Souths plays in shaping Black women artists' distinct poetics. A second project examines Black women’s experimental archival methods. Morris Johnson’s writing has appeared in Meridians and MELUS among other platforms. Formerly an Alice Walker Fellow with Emory’s Rose MARBL Library, her work has been supported by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars/Mellon.