Kevin Quashie, professor of Africana Studies at Smith College, will present a lecture titled “Breath, Silence, Quiet: Some Thoughts on Blackness Now” on Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 4:15 p.m., in the Red Pit, KJ. The lecture is sponsored by the Days-Massolo Center and is free and open to the public.
Quashie teaches cultural studies and theory, and is specifically interested in black culture and feminisms since 1970. He is the author of The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture and Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (un) Becoming the Subject. He has also co-edited the anthology New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America. Quashie is currently a member of the Women’s Studies Program Committee at Smith College.
He received a bachelor of arts degree in English from Florida International University, a master’s degree in higher education administration from Bowling Green State University, and a second master’s degree and Ph.D., both in English, from Arizona State University.
