Please join the Department of English and Creative Writing for the annual Black Life and Letters Lecture Series in Honor of William Cook featuring Wendy Walters.

Wendy S. Walters is the author of A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint forthcoming from Scribner; Multiply/Divide: on the American Real and Surreal (Sarabande) and two books of poetry. Her work has received support from Creative Capital; The Architectural League of New York; NYFA; Mass MoCA, and others. For The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she co-curated the exhibition Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast which was called “a masterclass in presenting complicated, troubling art.” She also co-edited the volume Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered (Yale). Walters is an associate professor of nonfiction in the Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia University.

William W. Cook was the Israel Evans Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres Emeritus at Dartmouth College, where he served as chair of the Departments of English and African and African American Studies. A pioneering scholar in Black Studies, Bill brought a wide-ranging integrative approach to literature. This lecture series brings together poets, writers, critics, and scholars to celebrate and promote the scholarship Bill championed at Dartmouth.