Title
Dr. Ebony Lumumba- Demonstration of Life: Signifying for Social Justice in Eudora Welty’s ‘The Demonstrators’
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Description
Dr. Ebony Lumumba is currently Chair of the English Department at Jackson State University. Ebony received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Mississippi. She was named the Eudora Welty Research Fellow in 2013 and Tougaloo’s Humanities Teacher of the Year in 2014. Dr. Lumumba specializes in post colonial literatures of the Global South and cultural equity in film culture in her research and instruction. In her lecture on March 3, 2020 she discussed her most recent publication “Demonstration of Life: Signifying for Social Justice in Eudora Welty’s ‘The Demonstrators’" a chapter in New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race followed by a brief Q&A.
Location
Mississippi University for Women
Publication Date
3-6-2020
Keywords
Mississippi University for Women, Mississippi, Women's Leadership, Eudora Welty, Dr. Ebony Lumumba, Ebony Lumumba, New Essays on Eudora Welty Class and Race, The Demonstrators
Disciplines
English Language and Literature
Recommended Citation
Mississippi University for Women, "Dr. Ebony Lumumba- Demonstration of Life: Signifying for Social Justice in Eudora Welty’s ‘The Demonstrators’" (2020). Martha Swain Southern Women's History Speaker Series. 1.
https://athenacommons.muw.edu/swain-series/1