In 2020, the Studies in Romanticism editors invited me to edit a new section of the journal—a forum featuring essays on questions and issues of importance to Romanticism. To prepare for this work, I convened the dialogue series “Race, Blackness, and Romanticism.” The special forum is available here: Studies in Romanticism 61 (1): Spring 2022
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Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
Robert Schirmer Professor and Chair of English
Slavery and the Culture of Taste
Lisa Lowe (Yale University)
Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies and Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Director of American Studies Graduate Studies
The Intimacies of Four Continents
Peter Brathwaite (Actor/Baritone/Rediscovering Black Portraiture)
“Black Portraiture”
Paterson Joseph (Actor/Playwright/Writer)
Sancho: An Act of Remembrance
April 14, 2021
Christienna Fryar (Goldsmith’s University of London)
Lecturer in Black British History and Convenor MA Black British History Programme
Women and Slavery
Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University)
Assistant Professor of History
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Marcos Gonsalez (Adelphi University)
Assistant Professor of English
Pedro’s Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land
Travis Chi Wing Lau (Kenyon College)
Assistant Professor of English
Paring
The Dialogues were co-sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, SUNY Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, the Humanities Institute, and the James H. McNulty Chair of English Myung Mi Kim. Dana Venerable provided technology support.