Program:

CLA Member Circle Presents: "Graduate Student Round Table"

Calling all Student Members of CLA! We invite you to join the next Member Circle Presents event on Tuesday, January 24, 7pm (edt). We will host a roundtable discussion on the student experience in CLA, with invited student members reflecting upon their present and future engagement with the organization. The roundtable will be followed by a townhall where attendees will have the opportunity to pose questions to members of CLA leadership and share ideas about the support and initiatives that will best serve student members. We hope that you all will join this critical gathering, as we consider the future of the organization and the role of our student members in making the future of CLA what it will be!

Tuesday January 24th at 7 PM EDT:                            

7:00 EDT (6:00 Central):    Join The Panel 

 Panelist Bios:

Anthony Boynton

A.D. Boynton, II [he/they] is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Kansas with research interests in African American literature, speculative fiction, and queer studies. Boynton is an Editor for the Journal of Science Fiction, and has work published in the South Atlantic Review, Community Literacy Journal, and Open Cultural Studies. Their dissertation, Ghosting While Black, attends to how ghosts and haunting figures show up across Black literary, cultural, sonic, and material production. 

Chelsea Osademe

Chelsea Osademe is a native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She received her B.A. in English from Spelman College in 2017 and M.A. in English from Kansas State University in 2019. Her research interests focus on the relationship between gothic aesthetics and notions of citizenship and anti-Blackness in African American literature and culture.

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