Exploring the Lives of Anna Douglas

“Exploring the Lives of Anna Douglass through History and Poetry” Wed., 9/26, 5:00 pm St. David's Room / Connelly Center GWS Presents Nzadi Keita, Department of English, Ursinus College, and Leigh Fought, Department of History, LeMoyne College. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department and the English Department. Dr. M. Nzadi Keita is Associate Professor at Ursinus College. Dr. Keita’s poems appear in The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry, as well as MELUS Journal and Nocturnes Literary Review. Her most recent major project, “Brief Evidence of Heaven,” is a manuscript-in-progress of personal poems examining the life of Anna Murray Douglass. She teaches courses in African American literature, Caribbean literature, and creative writing. . Dr. Leigh Fought is Assistant Professor at Le Moyne College. She is the author of Southern Womanhood Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord (University of Missouri 2003) and served as associate editor on the first volume of Frederick Douglass’s correspondence, published by Yale University Press in 2009. She teaches courses in United States history and world civilization. Currently, she is at work on Frederick Douglass’s Women, to be published by Oxford University Press in late 2013.