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Seminar: Professor Thomas Glave: Scenes from a Jamaican Childhood
Location: Ramphal Building, R.0.14
Joint event with the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies
Thomas Glave is Professor of English at Binghamton University in the US. His most recent work appears in The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, Callaloo, and in several anthologies, including Kingston Noir and Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, both published in 2012. Glave has been Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT, and is a 2012 Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. This presentation will journey through meditations on coming of age, social class, gender, sexuality, and relationships with the dead in Jamaica, by way of the author's personal reflections.
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