Graduate and Professional | Public Humanities at Yale

Critical Encounters Series: Crystal Feimster “‘Plying Her Advocation’: Finding Clarinda Tackert Rasure (aka Julia Dean) in Civil War Archives”

Crystal Feimster is Associate Professor of African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University. Feimster’s academic focus is racial and sexual violence; currently, she is completing a project on rape during the American Civil War. Her book, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching, focuses on two women journalists: Ida B. Wells, who campaigned against lynching, and Rebecca Latimer Felton, who urged white men to prove their manhood by lynching black men accused of raping white women.
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Critical Encounters Series: Camille Owens: “Tom Wiggins’s Sensorium: Black Suffering, White Enjoyment, and the Un-ending Antebellum Family”

Camille Owens is a PhD candidate in African American Studies and American Studies. Her areas of research include nineteenth-century racial science, performances of blackness and disability, and the history of childhood. Her dissertation, ‘Blackness and the Human Child: Race, Prodigy, and the Logic of American Childhood,’ traces a genealogy of black prodigy performances from the eighteenth century to the twentieth, examining scientific and popular intersections of race and child-development as measures of the Human.
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Critical Encounters Series: Alanna Hickey “Translating the Cherokee Hymn”

Alanna Hickey is Assistant Professor of English. Her research and teaching focuses on intersections between early American literatures, poetry and poetics, Native American and Indigenous studies, and settler colonial studies. She is currently working on a book manuscript that uncovers the central role of poetry in Native American expressive cultures before the Native American Renaissance of the 1960s.