Please join us for a workshop hosted by the Department of African & African American Studies (DAAAS). Hannah Rachel Cole will facilitate a workshop entilted, Close Reading Brathwaite's "Colombe." 

Hannah Rachel Cole is a Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University. Previously she served as a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale Environmental Humanities and the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration.

Hannah holds a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Cornell University and a B.A Comparative Literature from Brown University. Her teaching and research interests include Environmental Humanities, Caribbean Literature, Plant Studies, Black Studies, and Digital Humanities. Currently she is working on a book project focused on reading for plant life in Caribbean literature in the wake of plantation slavery. Her digital humanities project, Botanical Imaginaries offers interactive maps of plant migration in the Caribbean Literary texts in an effort to bring critical attention to the plant worlds of this region.

This workshop will take place on Tuesday, January 30 from 10.00-11.00am in History Corner, Room 307. This will be followed by lunch with graduate students. Please RSVP here.

This workshop is part of the Assistant Professor of Caribbean Studies Faculty Search. Each event in the series features a 20-minute mini-lesson followed by Questions and Answers.