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Eddings Lecture: Chris Taylor
October 23, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
FreeThe annual David Eddings lecture on Tuesday, October 23, at 5 p.m. is hosted by the English Department at Reed College. Chris Taylor (University of Chicago) will deliver this year’s lecture, Solomon Northrup’s One Percent: Liberal Citizenship, Racial Freedom, Attenuated Anarchisms. The talk is free and open to the public, and will held in the Psychology building’s lecture hall (Room 105).
Bio: Dr. Taylor is an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago, where they teach Caribbean and African-American literatures from the 18th and 19th centuries. Their research interests include black political thought, the cultures of slavery and antislavery, and the history of freedom. Their first book, Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism, was published in 2018 (Duke University Press). Currently, they are working on a new book project, titled The Voluntary Slave: Atlantic Modernity’s Impossible Subject.