“Don’t Teach Your Sister to Fear the Bees”

March 21st, 2024 at 6:00pm
Room B243

Please join Joy Priest and Dr. Sharon P. Holland for “Don’t Teach Your Sister to Fear the Bees”: A Conversation with Joy Priest and Sharon Holland, taking place at Wells Hall, Room B243 on Thursday, March 21st, 2024 at 6:00pm.

Joy Priest (she/her) is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology (Sarabande, 2023). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Nation, among others. She is an Assistant Professor of African American / African Diasporic Poetry on the faculty of Pitt’s MFA program and the Curator of Community Programs & Practice at its Center for African American Poetry & Poetics.

Sharon P. Holland (she/her) is the President of the American Studies Association (2022-2025). She is also the Townsend Ludington Distinguished Professor in American Studies at the University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill. She served as Chair of the Department from July 2020- July 2022. She is a graduate of Princeton University (1986) and holds a PhD in English and African American Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1992). Professor Holland’s third monograph, an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life, is an investigation of the hum/animal distinction, hum:animal relation, and the place of discourse on blackness within those theoretical discussions.