Convened by Dr. Patricia A. Matthew, dialogues are scheduled for March 10th, March 24th, April 14th, and April 21st.

The two historians speaking April 14th are doing exciting work using their research for program building and developing digital projects. Jessica Marie Johnson and Christienna Fryar will help attendees think more carefully about Caribbean histories in global contexts.

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Christienna Fryar is a historian of modern Britain, the British Empire, and the modern Caribbean. At the heart of her work is the conviction that Britain and its history cannot be understood in isolation from the Caribbean. Her current research uses disaster studies to embed modern British history within the fields of comparative slavery and emancipation studies. Future work will examine Britain’s centuries-long imperial, postemancipation and postcolonial entanglements with the Caribbean through the cultural arenas of sports and language. She is convenor of the new MA in Black British History, and she is also a 2020 AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker.

Jessica Marie Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University. As a historian, Johnson researches black diasporic freedom struggles from slavery to emancipation. As a digital humanist, Johnson explores ways digital and social media disseminate and create historical narratives, in particular, comparative histories of slavery and people of African descent.

Convener: Dr. Patricia A. Matthew, UB CDI Distinguished Visitin Scholar, associate professor of English at Montclair State University, is a specialist in nineteenth-century British literature and culture and an expert on faculty diversity and inclusion. She is the editor of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure (University of North Carolina Press). Her work has also been published in journals including European Romantic Review, Women’s Writing, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and PMLA and in the art and culture magazines The Atlantic and Lapham’s Quarterly. Her diversity and inclusion work has been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education,  The Los Angeles Review of Books,  and New York Public Radio’s The Brian Lehrer Show.  She regularly leads workshops, delivers keynotes, and shares her research in public lectures. She is currently writing a book on sugar, protest, and British abolitionist culture and writing a series of essays on race and contemporary adaptations of Jane Austen’s world.

Sponsored by
The Boston University Center for the Humanities and the Univ. at Buffalo College of Arts & Sciences, Humanities Institute, and James H. McNulty Chair of English Myung Mi Kim

Presented by Boston Area Romanticist Colloquium and the University at Buffalo