Writing Matters: Scholars as Writers — Narrative Investigations

In the spring of 2021, Writing Matters will bring into conversation scholars who lead multiple writerly lives, blending voices and genres. How does such experimentation invigorate our scholarship, serve our intellectual and critical designs, and reach different readerships?

For the third installement, our panel explores the art of investigative storytelling with:

Kate Brown, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT, author of Dispatches From Dystopia: History of Places Not Yet Forgotten (2015)

Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and Professor Emeritus of American Studies, Yale, author of Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (2019)

Moderated by Stéphane Gerson (NYU Institute of French Studies/French)