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Up Next For Higher Ed? Cryptocurrencies, Political Battles and Hybrid Learning

What’s on the horizon for higher education? It’s the question that nonprofit association Educause poses annually to college faculty, staff, ...

A Symposium on "Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy"

Join us for a symposium on the edited collection Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy (Lexington Books, 2020). Edited by Professor Laura Gray-Rosendale, the volume "collects a range of perspectives from sexual assault survivors with backgrounds in academia. The contributors in this collection connect their experiences of sexual violence to

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Stop Calling Racialized Writers "Raw"

Linda Leith Publishing / The Walrus Dany Laferrière remembers the confusion he caused among locals after landing in Montreal in 1976. “They didn’t understand,” explains the Haitian-born author in Working in the Bathtub, a new book of interviews, “how someone who worked in a factory, who was black, an immigrant, from an extremely poor country like Haiti, could want to be a writer.” What happened next may well have puzzled Laferrière’s neighbours even more. His 1985 debut, How to Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired, made him a sensation. Irreverent and picaresque, set in Montreal’s Carré Saint-Louis neighbourhood, the novel mirrored Laferrière’s life during the 1980s: a Black man from Haiti yearning to be a great writer. Early in the book, the narrator declares himself a “Negro brimming over with unappeased fantasies, desires and dreams. Put it this way: I want America. Not one iota less.” Laferrière got a version of his wish: his fame exploded in Quebec and France, in part because of the controversy generated by the book’s title. (Later titles include