Tina Post, Ph.D. presents 'Deadpan, The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression', March 21
by Green & Gold News |
The College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English's 2nd Annual Linton Lecture Series will present Tina Post, Ph.D., and her book 'Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression' on March 21.
Her book explores expressionlessness, inscrutability and emotional withholding in Black cultural production. Arguing that inexpression is a gesture that acquires distinctive meanings in concert with blackness, Deadpan tracks instances and meanings of deadpan鈥攁 vaudeville term meaning 鈥渄ead face鈥濃�攁cross literature, theater, visual and performance art, and the performance of self in everyday life.
Author biography
- Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
- Winner of the 2023 ASAP Book Prize, given by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
Post graduated from Wells College with a B.A. in English Literature; the University of 麻豆无码版 Anchorage with her Masters of Philosophy and Masters of Arts. She holds another M.A. and a Ph.D. in African American Studies & American Studies from Yale University. She has been an associate professor at the University of Chicago in their English department since 2018.
Event details
Event location - RH 101
Event date - March 21, 2025
Event start time - 6:30 p.m.
Event end time - 7:30 p.m.