WGSS Speaker Series
Foraging for Freedom: Black Women's Contemporary Eco-Praxis.
A Conversation with Stephanie Dunning.
University of Rochester
Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute
Professor of Black Studies and English
Stefanie K. Dunning is the Susan B. Anthony Professor of Sexuality, Women, and Gender Studies at the University of Rochester, director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute, and Professor of Black Studies and English. She is a graduate of Spelman College and the University of California, Riverside; and she is a Ford Fellow. She was the 2021-2022 Altman Humanities Center Co-Fellow at Miami University, curating a year-long program on Race and Racism. She has published articles in MELUS, Studies in the Fantastic, African American Review, and several volumes and anthologies. Among her publications are her first book, Queer in Black and White: Same Sex Desire and African American Culture which was published in 2009 by Indiana University Press and her most recent publications include the book Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2021) and a podcast, called Black to Nature: The Podcast. Both her podcast and published work has been highlighted and featured on the Yale Climate Connections publication, the Conversations in Atlantic Theory podcast, and she has been a featured scholar at the Chautauqua Institution. She also recently guest edited a special edition of Studies in the Fantastic on the genre of black horror and is currently at work on two books: a literary biography of Wallace Thurman and a monograph titled Other/Worldly: A Black Ecology of Outer Space, which examines Afrofuturist texts that highlight modalities of change and world-making in the context of space travel.
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