Donny Liszt; or, Franz Hathaway?

The American Literature Research Collaborative at the Department of English is thrilled to announce their first event of the year: a talk by Prof. I. Augustus Durham titles, “Donny Liszt; or, Franz Hathaway?”

Professor Durham’s talk will take place on November 8 and is hosted with support from the Centre for the Study of the United States and the Northrop Frye Centre.

This event does not require registration, all are welcome.

I. Augustus Durham is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. A former President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Maryland, College Park, he worked in New York prior to his arrival at Toronto. His research interests span numerous centuries to account for the emergence, presence, and meaning of blackness in modernity. Durham’s first monograph, Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius (Duke University Press), takes up such ideas to examine the relationship between black mothers and sons whereby through abstraction, the black feminine/maternal maintains a psychoanalytic and affective role in the making of melancholy and genius in the black masculine. He has published work in Syndicate, Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, and Journal of Religion and Health; and an essay on the film Moonlight for an edited collection on Tarell Alvin McCraney. Durham is currently working on three new projects regarding a singer, a calendar year, and (re)invention.