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Classical Connections Public Lecture: Prof. Patrice Rankine (Richmond) "Caught in the Act: The Classics, White Supremacy, and the Quest for a New Commons"

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Location: OC 0.01

Prof. Patrice Rankine is Professor of Classics and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Richmond. His research focusses on African American literature and the reception of the Classics among black American authors. He is the author of Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature (The University of Wisconsin Press 2006), Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2013) and co-editor of the Oxford University Handbook: Greek Drama in the Americas (with Kathryn Bosher, Fiona Macintosh, and Justine McConnell; Oxford University Press, 2015).

Prof. Rankine will lecture on the state of Classics in the US, the historical moorings leading to today, and work of himself and others in what he calls a "new commons".

The Lecture is generously funded by IATL as Public Lecture for the undergraduate module 'Africa and the Making of Classical Literature'.

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