{"id":118351,"date":"2022-03-17T11:25:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=118351"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:25:06","slug":"north-carolina-author-sharon-holland-set-for-annual-howry-lecture-at-ole-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/north-carolina-author-sharon-holland-set-for-annual-howry-lecture-at-ole-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Author Sharon Holland Set for Annual Howry Lecture at Ole Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sharon Holland is renowned for her writings on Blackness and sexuality<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Distinguished author and lecturer Sharon P. Holland<\/strong> is set to deliver the second annual Howry Lecture<\/strong> in Faulkner Studies<\/strong> at the University of Mississippi<\/strong>. The talk is scheduled for 7 pm Monday, March 21, 2022 in the Bondurant Hall<\/strong> auditorium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holland, the Townsend Ludington Distinguished Professor<\/strong> and chair of American<\/strong> studies at the University of North Carolina<\/strong>, is titling her lecture “How to Tell a Story about a Horse.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Howry Lecture in Faulkner Studies is funded by the same endowment that sponsors the Howry Professorship of English, held by Jay Watson<\/strong>, and was created to honor the generosity of the Howry family and to continue the study of William Faulkner’s works at the university. Each year, the lecture brings a Southern literature expert to speak to English faculty, students and alumni and to spark discussion among the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“To lure Sharon Holland to the Faulkner studies podium from her brilliant work on Blackness, sexuality and posthumanism represents a real coup for the English department, the university and this lecture series,” Watson said. “Our audience is in for a real treat: a breathtakingly original thinker at the top of her game, and doubtless with surprises in store.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holland is a graduate of Princeton University<\/strong> and earned a doctorate in English<\/strong> and African American<\/strong> studies from the University of Michigan<\/strong>. She is the author of “Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity” (Duke University Press, 2000), which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize<\/strong> from the American Studies Association<\/strong> in 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is also co-author of a collection of trans-Atlantic Afro-Native<\/strong> criticism with Tiya Miles<\/strong>, of the University of Michigan<\/strong>, titled “Crossing Waters\/ Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country” (Duke University Press, 2006). Holland is also responsible for bringing a feminist classic, “The Queen is in the Garbage” by Lila Karp, to the attention of The Feminist Press<\/strong> for publication in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holland is the author of “The Erotic Life of Racism” (Duke University Press, 2012), a theoretical project that explores the intersection of critical race, feminist and queer theory. Her next project, “an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life,” an investigation of the human\/animal distinction and the place of discourse on blackness within that discussion, is under contract with Duke University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see Holland’s work on food, writing and all things equestrian, go to her blog at\u00a0https:\/\/theprofessorstable.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Lydia Lagarde<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sharon P. Holland. Photo courtesy Eamon Queeney\/The Washington Post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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