Speakers
- Sasha Panaram
- Duke University, Ph.D. Candidate
Sasha Panaram is a doctoral candidate at Duke University in the Department of English where she also pursues certificates in African & African American Studies and Women’s Studies. Her dissertation, “The Space in Between: Black Women and Ecologies of Middle Passage” examines how twentieth and twenty-first century black women novelists, poets, orators, and literary critics from Barbados, Tobago, Canada, and the United States reinscribe the Middle Passage in their works to address the ecological resonances of this forced transatlantic migration. She argues that their works, in the tradition of black feminism, model ethical modes of inhabiting the earth.