Dr Randi Gill-Sadler will be giving a talk entitled “Literary Fieldwork: Archives, the Environment and Black American Fiction” followed by a conversation with Christine Okoth on 21st May, 5pm at Bush House (NE) 1.02.

About the speaker

Randi Gill-Sadler is a teacher, scholar, and writer. She received her PhD in English and her graduate certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Florida. Her research and teaching interests include 20th century African American and Afro-Caribbean women's literature, U.S. Cultures of Imperialism, and theories of Black diasporic relation and anticolonialism. Her work has been published in Feminist Formations, Small Axe, Radical History Review, and Oxford American magazine. She is currently writing her first book which revisits the Black women's literary renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s to explore how Black women writers like Paule Marshall, June Jordan, Gloria Naylor, and Toni Cade Bambara reckoned with African Americans' growing conscription into U.S. imperial exploits in their fiction, poetry, and film.