Event | Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference

The Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference, sponsored by Stanford's American Studies Program, explores new critical perspectives on the diversity of Dunbar's literary production as a poet, novelist, lyricist, dramatist, and journalist. David Bradley, award-winning author of The Chaneysville Incident, reappraises the way we read and understand America's first professional African American Writer in a lecture on "Factoring Out Race: The Cultural Context of Paul Laurence Dunbar." Stanford's American Studies Program is an interdisciplinary major that seeks to convey a broad understanding of American culture and society in all their complexity. Stanford University Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Stanford Channel on YouTube /stanford

The Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference, sponsored by Stanford's American Studies Program, explores new critical perspectives on the diversity of Dunbar's literary production as a poet, novelist, lyricist, dramatist, and journalist. Adrian Gaskins, "From Dayton to Dahomey to Denver: Dunbar's Travels and the Movement of New Negroes in the Early Twentieth Century;" Blair L.M. Kelley, " 'Did not once have to take a "Jim Crow" Car: The Travels of Dunbar in the Age of Segregation;" Xilao Li, "A Chinese Reading of Dunbar" Stanford's American Studies Program is an interdisciplinary major that seeks to convey a broad understanding of American culture and society in all their complexity. Stanford University Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Stanford Channel on YouTube /stanford

The Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference, sponsored by Stanford's American Studies Program, explores new critical perspectives on the diversity of Dunbar's literary production as a poet, novelist, lyricist, dramatist, and journalist. Jennifer James, "Dunbar's 'The Fanatics' and the Post-Civil War Reconciliation Narrative;" Gene Jarrett, "Second-Generation Realist; or, Dunbar the Naturalist;" Thomas Leuchtenmuller, "'Tis thy breath perfumes the air': Paul Laurence Dunbar's Overlooked Play, 'Herrick'" Stanford's American Studies Program is an interdisciplinary major that seeks to convey a broad understanding of American culture and society in all their complexity. Stanford University Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Stanford Channel on YouTube /stanford

The Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference, sponsored by Stanford's American Studies Program, explores new critical perspectives on the diversity of Dunbar's literary production as a poet, novelist, lyricist, dramatist, and journalist. William J. Maxwell, "Dunbar's Bohemian Gallery: Foreign Color and International Modernism;" Ray Sapirstein, "Picturing Dunbar's Lyrics: The Poet's Collaboration with the Hampton Camera Club;" Reynolds Scott-Childress, "Dunbar and the Project of Cultural Reconstruction" Stanford's American Studies Program is an interdisciplinary major that seeks to convey a broad understanding of American culture and society in all their complexity. Stanford University Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Stanford Channel on YouTube /stanford

The Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference, sponsored by Stanford's American Studies Program, explores new critical perspectives on the diversity of Dunbar's literary production as a poet, novelist, lyricist, dramatist, and journalist. Lecture on Dunbar's writing for and about children by Michele Elam followed by performance by Stanford students of Dunbar's poems about and for children directed by Harry Elam and assistant director Jo-Issa Diop, Co-sponsored by Committee on Black Performing Arts and Dept. of Drama Stanford's American Studies Program is an interdisciplinary major that seeks to convey a broad understanding of American culture and society in all their complexity. Stanford University Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Stanford Channel on YouTube /stanford

The Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference, sponsored by Stanford's American Studies Program, explores new critical perspectives on the diversity of Dunbar's literary production as a poet, novelist, lyricist, dramatist, and journalist. James Smethhurst, "Dunbar and African American Dualism;" Jennifer Terry, ""When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers': Dunbar's Poetic Engagement with the Civil War and Violence;" Nicole Waligora-Davis, "Lynchings: Fictions of Law, Evidence, and Science in Dunbar's Writings;" Kenneth Warren, "'Some Men are Born Great, Some Achieve Greatness, and Others Lived During the Reconstruction Period': Dunbar and the Character of History." Stanford University Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Stanford Channel on YouTube /stanford

The Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference, sponsored by Stanford's American Studies Program, explores new critical perspectives on the diversity of Dunbar's literary production as a poet, novelist, lyricist, dramatist, and journalist. Marcellus Blount, "Slavery Remembered: Dunbar and the African American Elegy;" Michael Cohen, "Dunbar and the Genres of Dialect;" Yolanda Pierce, "That Old Time Religion: An Afro-Christian Faith Tradition in Dunbar's Short Stories;" Lauri Ramey, "The Old Homestead: Home in the Spirituals and Dunbar." Stanford's American Studies Program is an interdisciplinary major that seeks to convey a broad understanding of American culture and society in all their complexity. Stanford University Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Stanford Channel on YouTube /stanford

The Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference, sponsored by Stanford's American Studies Program, explores new critical perspectives on the diversity of Dunbar's literary production as a poet, novelist, lyricist, dramatist, and journalist. Jennifer Hughes, "Representing 'A Ghastly Humor': The Politics of Incongruity in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Fanatics;" John Lowe, "Exploding the Laughing Barrel: Dunbar and American Humor;" Nadia Nurhussein, "Dunbar's Performances and Epistolary Dialect Poetry." Stanford's American Studies Program is an interdisciplinary major that seeks to convey a broad understanding of American culture and society in all their complexity. Stanford University Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Stanford Channel on YouTube /stanford

The Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference, sponsored by Stanford's American Studies Program, explores new critical perspectives on the diversity of Dunbar's literary production as a poet, novelist, lyricist, dramatist, and journalist. Joanne Braxton, "Dunbar, the Originator;" Joanne Gabbin, "Intimate Intercessions: The Poetry of Dunbar;" Elizabeth McHenry, "Beyond the Presence of Dunbar;" Greg Robinson and Lillian Robinson, "Dunbar, A Credit to His Race," explore the legacies of America's first professional African American writer. Stanford's American Studies Program is an interdisciplinary major that seeks to convey a broad understanding of American culture and society in all their complexity. Stanford University Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Stanford Channel on YouTube /stanford