Glass and the Black Atlantic

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo and Literature professor Kerry Sinanan discuss the colonial and racial dimensions of glass imaginaries.

Gregory Pardlo is the author of Spectral Evidence, which was a Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Prize and the National Book Award. His other books include Digest, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Totem, and Air Traffic. His honors include fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is Program Head of Literature and Creative Writing at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Kerry Sinanan is Associate Professor in Global pre-1800 Literature and Culture. She specializes in the Black Atlantic, Caribbean slavery and race, and the global dimensions of Black, Indigenous, and Caribbean resistance and abolition up to the present. Her monograph, “Myths of Mastery: Traders, Planters and Colonial Agents, 1750-1834,” examines the writings in various genres by slave traders and slave owners from the mid-eighteenth century up to British emancipation (1834).

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