Our upcoming spring colloquium will feature Dagmawi Woubshet from the University of Pennsylvania. His talk is entitled “ Outside the Temple: James Baldwin’s Changing View of Love and Sexuality ." From the poster: Dagmawi Woubshet is Ahuja Family Presidential Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he works at the intersections of African American, LGBTQ, and African studies. He is the author of The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015) and the co-editor of Ethiopia: Literature, Art, and Culture , a special issue of the journal Callaloo (2010). His writing has appeared in many publications, including Transition, NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Aperture, The Atlantic , and African Lives: An Anthology . He is currently completing a second book, Here Be Saints: James Baldwin’s Late Style . See you there!
