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DESCRIPTION:The conventional horror tropes of the return of the repressed a
 nd of the monster do not adhere to black life which has been characterized
  by ever present terror and the misnaming of the monster. Through this con
 vocation of dynamic writers\, theorists\, and artists\, the conversation w
 ill touch upon issues of craft as well as of how to live blackly\, attuned
  to the unique yet common experience of what John Jennings has called “t
 he Black gothic.”\n\nRegister: https://bit.ly/blackhorrorsalon\n\nImage 
 Credit: Art by John Jennings\n\nSpeaker Bios\n\nKiese Makeba Laymon is a B
 lack southern writer from Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon is the author of L
 ong Division and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. Laymon
 ’s bestselling memoir\, Heavy: An American Memoir\, won the 2019 Andrew 
 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction\, the 2018 Christopher Isherwo
 od Prize for Autobiographical Prose\, and was named one of the 50 Best Mem
 oirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. The audiobook\, read by t
 he author\, was named the Audible 2018 Audiobook of the Year. Laymon is th
 e recipient of 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard.\n\nDr. Lisa B. T
 hompson is professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the Univer
 sity of Texas at Austin. She is author of Beyond The Black Lady: Sexuality
  and the New African American Middle Class\, Single Black Female\, and Und
 erground\, Monroe\, and The Mamalogues: Three Plays. Thompson’s plays ha
 ve been produced throughout the US and internationally. Her accolades incl
 ude LA Weekly Theatre Award for Best Comedy nominee\, Irma P. Hall Black T
 heatre Award Best Play winner\, Austin Critics Circle David Mark Cohen New
  Play Award winner\, and Broadway World Regional Awards Best Writing of an
  Original Work winner.\n\nJohn Jennings is an author\, graphic novelist\, 
 curator\, Harvard Fellow\, New York Times Bestseller\, and 2018 Eisner Win
 ner. A Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Califo
 rnia at Riverside (UCR)\, Jennings is director of Abrams ComicArts imprint
  Megascope\, Jennings is co-editor of the 2016 Eisner Award-winning collec
 tion The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Se
 quential Art and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Co
 mic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK Nor
 Cal’s Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also SOL-CON: The B
 rown and Black Comix Expo.\n\nDr. Therí A. Pickens is Professor of Englis
 h at Bates College\, specializing in African American\, Arab American and 
 disability literatures and theories. Her monograph\, Black Madness :: Mad 
 Blackness\, explores the connection between Blackness and madness. Her fir
 st book New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contem
 porary United States. She guest edited the 50th anniversary issue of Afric
 an American Review and the College Language Association Journal special is
 sue on Blackness and Disability. Her poetry has appeared in Squaw Valley J
 ournal\, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire\, and Disability Studies Quar
 terly. Her drama has been performed at the NJ State Theater.\n\ndr. andré
  carrington is Associate Professor of English at UC Riverside. His book\, 
 Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction analyzes the 
 role of blackness in science fiction and fantasy works across popular medi
 a. He has published in Present Tense\, Sounding Out!\, African & Black Dia
 spora\, the Blackwell Companion to the Harlem Renaissance\, The Blacker th
 e Ink\, and Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call. He is a past
  fellow of the Penn Humanities Forum (now the Wolf Humanities Center) and 
 the Hutchins Center at Harvard\, and is the recipient of a New York Counci
 l for the Humanities grant.\n\nDr. Courtney R. Baker is an Associate Profe
 ssor in the department of English at University of California\, Riverside.
  She was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institut
 e at Emory University. She co-founded and served as the inaugural chair of
  the Black Studies program at Occidental College where she was also an Ass
 ociate Professor of American Studies. She is author of HUMANE INSIGHT: Loo
 king at Images of African-American Suffering and Death. She has written ac
 ademic and popular essays on African-American film\, the history of the im
 age in African-American activism\, and the ethics of narratives about deat
 h.
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SUMMARY:Black Horror Salon: A Literary Conversation
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