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The scholarly journey of Hortense Spillers

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Spillers, PhD'74, professor of English at Vanderbilt University, reflects on her academic journey as she receives the Alumni Achievement Award

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Hortense J. Spillers is an American literary critic and black feminist theorist.

Hortense J. Spillers is an American literary critic and black feminist theorist.

Hortense J. Spillers is the Frederick J. Whiton Professor of English at Cornell University.

In “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book,” Hortense Spillers subjects Daniel Patrick Moynihan's notorious black matriarchal thesis to a.

Hortense J. Spillers—teacher, scholar, literary critic, writer—is recognized as the most consequential theorist in Black feminist and humanist inquiry.

To do so I draw upon black feminist theory, in particular upon Hortense Spillers Barack Obama was born August 4th, [Return to text].

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Hortense J. Spillers PhD'74 is an American literary critic, black feminist scholar and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, and on Feb. 9 will receive Brandeis' Alumni Achievement Award during the African and African American studies 50th Anniversary events on Feb.

8 and 9. But before she began accumulating awards as a leader in her field, she was a newly-minted PhD candidate driving a Buick Skylark from Memphis to Brandeis in the tumultuous summer of 1968. In answer to questions posed by Faith Lois Smith, associate professor of African and African American Studies and English, Spillers discussed her evolution as a scholar and what black feminist theory can teach us in the present moment.

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