03/27/2021
Save the Date! You Don’t Want to Miss This!
We are proud to present feminist cultural critic Roxane Gay as our 32nd guest in the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series. Dr. Gay will deliver the Bauder Lecture via Facebook at 7:00 pm on Friday, April 23, 2021.
Born in Omaha, studied at Yale University, Vermont College of Norwich University, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln before completing a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Technical Communication at Michigan Technological University. She has held faculty positions at Eastern Illinois University, Purdue University, and Yale University.
Her stories and essays have appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney's, Tin House, The Oxford American magazine, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Nation Magazine, and in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, and Best S*x Writing 2012. Dr. Gay’s fiction and nonfiction reflect “passionate opinions” and offer “willful provocations” about race, gender, and the human body. She is the author of two books of short stories, Ayiti (2011) and Difficult Women (2017); a novel, An Untamed State (2014); The New York Times best-selling essay collection, Bad Feminist (2014); and the provocative memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017).
Moreover, in a collaboration with poet Yona Harvey, Dr. Gay produced the Marvel comic book, Black Panther: World of Wakanda (2016). Dr. Gay is also the editor of Not That Bad: Dispatches from R**e Culture (2018) and The Best American Short Stories, 2018 (2018). Currently, she is also a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
Make sure to Save the Date for this very special event!
It will be broadcasted by Detroit Public Television and is free and open to the public.
Register online: https://detroitartsculture.wixsite.com/caals/home-2
