UCSD Visiting Scholar Jennifer Burton Book Signing

“Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies”

Inside the Bookstore, February 28, Monday, Noon-1PM; bring your lunch.

Burton (Ph.D. Harvard) has taught courses on the debates within African American studies. She has also taught at USD and Harvard University. Along with Henry Louis Gates Jr., Burton edited the 31-volume series “African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940,” and was the volume editor for “The Prize Plays and Other One-Acts: Zora Neale Hurston,” “Eulalie Spence, Marita Bonner, and Others.” She also contributed to “The Norton Anthology of African American Literature,” “The Oxford Companion to African American Literature,” and “Great American Women.” Her essays, fiction, and plays have appeared in publications from the “Buffalo News” to the “Southeast Review.” She has been a DuBois Fellow, a Mellon Fellow, and a Henry Luce Scholar.

For additional information contact: Roger Hailstork, rhailstork@ucsd.edu, (858)534-7306.