Professor Alison Parker‘s biography of the civil rights activist and Black feminist Mary Church Terrell, Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell (UNC Press, 2020), has been featured in… Read More
Ecomaterialism, the forum topic for 2021-22, focuses on the relationship between environment and materiality. It was once common to think of these terms as distinct. Where “nature” signified the physical… Read More
The Blackness and Publicness Working Group has released its Spring 2021 workshop schedule. Participants will workshop writings-in-progress and discuss readings that interrogate Blackness and publicness from the early modern period to… Read More
Heterosexuality is usually regarded as something inherently “natural”—but what is heterosexuality, and how has it taken shape across the centuries? By challenging ahistorical approaches to the heterosexual subject, Heterosexual Histories… Read More
Beginning March 23rd, Professor Margaret Stetz is offering the virtual course “Why We’re Still Wilde About Oscar” through The Rosenbach. Read below for the class description: Anyone who saw the… Read More
The Stanford Arcade Colloquium, “Thing Theory in Literary Studies,” is an online site dedicated to publishing a wide array of work about the study of things and materiality in literature.… Read More
On February 9th, Professor Jaipreet Virdi will participate in a Zoom Roundtable on Victorian Material Culture. Hosted by the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada (VSAWC), the roundtable marks the seventh event in… Read More
In 2020, CMCS celebrated its 20th anniversary! To mark the occasion, we invited 20 people who have been integral to the Center’s success and longevity to share an object that they… Read More
Looking for some winter break reading? Be sure to check out Dr. Jaipreet Virdi’s recent publication “Material Traces of Disability: Andrew Gawley’s Steel Hands, ” which appears in a special issue of Nuncius: The Journal… Read More
This application cycle, CMCS awarded four grants from the Graduate Research Fund in Black and African American Material Culture Studies. See below for more information!
