Phillis Wheatley and Friends Seminar Session One: Celebrating 250 Years of Wheatley's Poems with Dr. Tara Bynum

Phillis Wheatley and Friends: Celebrating 250 Years of Wheatley’s Poems
with Dr. Tara Bynum 

First Session: Wednesday April 12th, 6pm to 7:30pm ET

 $200 Non-members | $175 Members
(Cost includes all three sessions)

Phillis Wheatley is often fixed in time as a lone, singular voice. This course will introduce students to another story for the young poet and, by implication, a new story for early African American writing. What if Wheatley is not by herself, but is instead an active interlocutor, friend, writer, and lover in various communities throughout New England, England, and elsewhere? These communities buy Wheatley’s book, live through a war, and later have to mourn the loss of their friend. They are communities, too, that write, read, and leave behind a legacy in manuscript and in print. The aim of the class is to ask new questions and to situate this writing amidst old, new, and different ways of reading and to center the living of Black women and men in the latter half of the eighteenth century.

Schedule for Phillis Wheatley and Friends

Wednesday, April 12th | 6:00-7:30pm ET

Wednesday, April 19th | 6:00-7:30pm ET

Wednesday, April 26th | 6:00-7:30pm ET

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