Join us for an engaging presentation by Dr . Tikenya Foster-Singletary\, Humanities Program Director at Clark Atlanta University\, where she explores the lasting impact of A Different World! Dr. Foster-Singletary will examine how the show's vibrant portrayal of Bla ck college students sparked a measurable surge in HBCU enrollment and resh aped the way Black excellence was represented on American television. From Dwayne Wayne to Whitley Gilbert\, A Different World was never just a sitc om.
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An experienced instructor and scholar\, Dr. F oster-Singletary has research interests in African American literature\, A merican literature\, and television and popular culture. She teaches a wid e range of undergraduate and graduate courses in literature and writing. I n addition\, she is a frequent presenter at conferences by the College Lan guage Association and the Popular Culture Association of the South. Her wo rk has been published in MAWA Review\, Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora\, and Southern Quarterly\; her essays on literature and televisi on have been included in a number of essay collections. She is co-editor o f an edited volume focused on the work of playwright and novelist Pearl Cl eage entitled Pearl Cleage and Free Womanhood. Published by McFarland Pres s\, the collection features essays on the writer&rsquo\;s prose work as we ll as an interview. It is the only book-length consideration of Cleage&rsq uo\;s work. In 2019 Dr. Foster-Singletary was selected as a Georgia Govern or&rsquo\;s Teaching Fellow. She is Co-PI for a NEH Spotlight on the Human ities Grant.
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