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The English Department dedicates the 7th Annual Mary Louise White Symposium to the legacy of gospel great, Mahalia Jackson, in commemoration of the centennial of her birth. “Music and Literature: Legacies in Harmony’”, will commence the symposium on Friday, Nov. 4, beginning with student presentations at 9 a.m. followed by the featured panel discussion of guest scholars from 2 to 5 p.m in the Horizon Room in the Williams Center.
The event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served. The symposium has been sponsored by the Mary Louis White Fund and the Faculty Student Association.
Students enrolled in “Introduction to African American Literature & Culture” with English Professor Saundra Liggins, will share their work-in-progress in oral presentations, with posters that will be on display through the event.
A panel of three scholars of distinction will share their work that examines the intersection and connectivity between music and literature.
Moderated by Dr. Liggins, the panel features:
- Dr. Alexis Levitin, Distinguished Professor, English, SUNY Plattsburgh
- Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, Professor, African & American Studies, Duke University
- Dr. Gillian Steinberg, Associate Professor, English, Yeshiva University.
Alexis Levitin:
Alexis Levitin is one of the most respected—if not the most respected—English-language translator of Portuguese and Brazilian literature, as well as literature from Ecuador. His numerous prizes, awards, and grants include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Columbia University Translation Center, and, in Portugal, the Camões Institute, the Gulbenkian Foundation, and the Book Institute. He has also received a prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency. Plattsburgh news item>>
Mark Anthony Neal:
Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. Neal is the author of four books, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003) and New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005). He is a 1987 graduate of SUNY Fredonia. His blog, New Black Man>>
Gillian Steinberg:
A native of Fredonia, N.Y., Gillian Steinberg is assistant professor of English and director of English composition at Yeshiva University. She holds an MA and PhD from the University of Delaware. Her teaching and research interests are in modern poetry, composition, literature pedagogy, and twentieth century short fiction. She is the author of Philip Larkin and His Audiences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). More on her book>>
