Humanities Center's Visiting Scholar: Dr. Sara E. Johnson, "Notes on Writing a Communal Biography of the Enslaved"

Announced on: Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026

Dr. Sara E. Johnson, "Notes on Writing a Communal Biography of the Enslaved"

Professor of Literature, Co-Director of the UCSD Black Studies Project
University of California, San Diego

Thursday, February 5 at 5:30 p.m., on Zoom
Register for the Zoom webinar: https://csuchico.zoom.us/meeting/register/8vBQ4kv_QVu44Q2z29K-KA#/registration

Professor Johnson's research and teaching areas include literature, theory and history of the Hispanophone, Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean and its diasporas; hemispheric American literature and cultural studies; the Age of Revolution in the extended Americas; and music and dance of the African Diaspora.

She has done extensive research abroad, living in Senegal, Cuba, Haiti and Martinique. Her past fellowships include those from the Ford Foundation, the University of California President's Postdoctoral Program, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Hellman Fund, the UC Consortium for Black Studies, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Bibliographical Society of America. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University and her B.A. from Yale University in Comparative Literature and African American Studies.

This talk is sponsored by the Chico State Women's Philanthropy Council.

To learn more about the Humanities Center, contact Dr. Erin Kelly at ekkelly@csuchico.edu or go to https://www.csuchico.edu/academics/college/humanities-fine-arts/events/humanities-center/index.shtml.