71st Annual Charles Eaton Burch Lecture Featuring John Jennings
Howard University's Department of English and College of Arts and Sciences
Presents
The 70th Annual Charles Eaton Burch Lecture
Featuring Hugo-Award Winner and Bestselling Author,
Dr. John Jennings.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
4:00pm to 6:00pm, Eastern
This is a virtual event. Register Here: Link TBA
Biography:
John Jennings is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of the Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. He is also a 2016 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with Harvard University's Hutchins Center. Jennings' current projects include the horror anthology Box of Bones, the coffee table book Black Comix Returns (with Damian Duffy), and the New York Times best-selling graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's novel Kindred. He is also co-illustrator of the 2017 graphic novel I am Alfonso Jones by Dr. Tony Medina, Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University.
He received his BA from Jackson State University and his MA along with his PhD at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
You can learn more about John Jennings at his website and follow him on Twitter @JIJennings
About the Burch Lecture
DR. CHARLES EATON BURCH was a faculty member at Howard University's Department of English for twenty-seven years. He served as department chair from 1933 until his untimely death in 1948. A scholar of 17th and 18th-century literature and expert on the author Daniel Defoe, Dr. Burch also introduced one of the earliest courses on Black Literature and Life into the curriculum. To honor his legacy, the Department established and endowed the annual Charles Eaton Burch Memorial Lecture in 1948.
Header Image Credits:
- John Jennings, from The Steampunk User's Manuel, found on his website