Speakers
- I. Augustus Durham
- University of Maryland, College Park, Postdoctoral Fellow
I. Augustus Durham is the 2018-20 President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Having completed his PhD in English from Duke University, as well as Certificates in African & African American Studies, College Teaching, and Feminist Studies (2018), his work in black studies spans the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, interrogating how melancholy catalyzes performances of excellence, otherwise known as genius. Durham has published articles in Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, and Journal of Religion and Health.