A Virtual Lecture by Sara Johnson (Professor of Literature, UCSD)
Online
Professor Johnson’s talk is drawn from her award-winning book Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (Omohundro Institute/UNC Press, 2023) which documents the work of Moreau de Saint-Méry, a late eighteenth-century Caribbean intellectual. The book combines traditional academic chapters and experimental forms in its use of archival fragments and visual culture to tell the stories of the free people of color and enslaved women and men who enabled Moreau’s work.
Sponsored by the Department of French and Italian, and the Kathryn B. Gore Chair in French
