Two Events with Dr. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Please join the UWM Department of English Creative Writing Program, Boswell Book Company, UWM Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, and UWM Women’s & Gender Studies for two events with Dr. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on October 24th, hosted both in-person (Curtin Hall 175) and virtually (access via QR codes below). Times are in central time and the events are free and open to the public.
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s fiction writing explores the intellectual, emotional, and bodily lives of young black women through voice, music, and hip-hop inflected magical realist techniques. A proud native of Harlem, NY, Sullivan’s critical and scholarly work on sexuality, identity, and poetics in contemporary African Diaspora culture has appeared in The Cut, Feminist Studies, American Quarterly, College Literature, The Rumpus, Ebony.com, The Feminist Wire, Black Futures, and many others. Mecca’s research and scholarship have earned support from the Mellon-Mays Foundation, the Social Sciences Research Council, Williams College, Rutgers University, Duke University, the American Academy of University Women, and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Foundation). She is a Professor of English at Georgetown University and lives in Washington, DC.