Dr. Shawn Christian of FIU presents his ta lk\, &ldquo\;Prescience and Interiority in James Baldwin&rsquo\;s and Barr y Jenkin&rsquo\;s If Beale Street Could Talk.&rdquo\; Throughout the 1970s \, James Baldwin experienced what many observers described as a period of decline and disillusionment. Christian examines Baldwin's 1974 novel I f Beale Street Could Talk and Barry Jenkins' 2018 film adaptation. Ba ldwin's novel follows a young black couple whose lives are torn apart by a false criminal accusation. \; \;
\nDr. Shawn Anthony Christ ian is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the English department at Fl orida International University. He is also affiliate faculty in FIU&rsquo\ ;s African and African Diaspora Studies program. He specializes in 20th-ce ntury African American literary and print culture and is the author of The Harlem Renaissance and The Idea of a New Negro Reader. \;
\nDr. Ayesha Hardison presents her talk\, &ldquo\;What&rsquo\;s Love G ot to Do With It?: Black Womanhood\, Nursing\, and Romance.&rdquo\; The 19 70s initiated new themes in African American literature not only regarding literary fiction\, as exemplified by Toni Morrison&rsquo\;s and Gayl Jone s&rsquo\;s works\, but also in terms of genre fiction&mdash\;namely Black romance. Whereas the popular genre is recognized as taking root in the 198 0s\, and Black romance fiction has dominated the multicultural romance sub genre since the 1990s\, Marilyn Morgan\, R.N. (1969)\, one of the first ro mance novels by an African American writer featuring Black characters\, re mains little known. Dr. Hardison&rsquo\;s talk will engage Black women&rsq uo\;s romantic\, familial\, communal\, and professional love as an art and a politic. \;
\nAyesha Hardison is a literary and cultural crit ic of African American writing and representation. An Associate Professor of English and Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas\, she explores questions of race\, gender\, genre\, social politic s\, and historical memory in her research and teaching. She is the author of Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African Amer ican Literature (University of Virginia Press\, 2014)\, and is co-edi tor with Eve Dunbar of African American Literature in Transition: 1930 -1940 (Cambridge University Press\, 2022). \;
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