45th Annual MLK Day Celebration
12/11/2019 • 4 years ago
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Dr. Emily Bernard will speak at the 45th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the Central Square Branch on Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 6:30 p.m.
Dr. Bernard is the Julian Lindsay Green & Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont, where she has been on the faculty since 2011. At the UVM, her research interests include, African-American and 20th-Century American literature, Critical Theory, Race and Ethnicity in Literature and Women's Studies.
Dr. Bernard has received fellowships from the Alphonse A. Fletcher Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Arts Council, and the W. E. B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. She was the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Senior Research Fellow in African American Studies at Yale University.
Bernard's published works include: Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Some of My Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendship, which was chosen by the New York Public Library as a Book for the Teen Age; and Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs, which received a 2010 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Her most recent book, Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White, was published by Yale University Press in 2012. Bernard’s essays have been reprinted in Best American Essays, Best African American Essays and Best of Creative Nonfiction. Her most recent publication, Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine, was published earlier this year and received glowing praise from Library Journal and the Kirkus Review of Books. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Dr. Bernard holds a B.A and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University.