Spelman College's Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Explores Science Fiction, Empire and the Citizen

Yale University Professor Hazel Carby, Ph.D., will participate in dialogue across Spelman College’s campus Sept. 17-18, 2015, as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program. During her two-day stay, Dr. Carby will deliver the keynote lecture “Writing By Hand” Thursday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. Dr. Carby is the Charles and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University, where she teaches courses on the literature and art of the Black Atlantic and the Caribbean; the transnational imaginaries of contemporary fiction; and science fiction in literature, visual culture and music.

Free and open to the public, the lecture will take place at Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D. Academic Center, Room 32 (lower level) (GPS Address: 440 Westview Drive, Atlanta 30310). For more information, visit www.spelman.edu.