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

Peter Brathwaite and Paterson Joseph will bring Black British culture to the series on March 24^th.  Paterson is a successful stage and screen actor and Peter is a baritone who has performed across the UK.  Their personal histories as Black men performing in predominately white artistic fields are as fascinating as their work.

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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