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The Immortality of Blackness

Feb. 21, 2022—Courtney Brown is the 2021-2022 Mona C. Frederick Fellow from the Department of English. Her research focuses on the use of immortality as aesthetic practice in contemporary Black American art and literature. I specialize in 20th- and 21st-century Black American literature and visual culture. Currently, my research focuses on the use of immortality as aesthetic...

On the Nature of Things

Feb. 14, 2022—Meet Jessie Hock, a 2021-2022 RPW Center Faculty Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of “Environments.” What does the phrase “Environments” mean to you? When I think of “environments,” I think about the set of interlocking circumstances that makes a surrounding. This is intentionally abstract: the project I’ll be working on as an...

Surviving in the Environment

Feb. 7, 2022—Meet Karen Ng, a 2021-2022 RPW Center Faculty Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of “Environments.” What does the phrase “Environments” mean to you? In my research, I explore how concepts of life and organic nature played a central role in nineteenth-century German philosophy, especially in their theories of mind, agency, and community....