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Tsitsi Ella Jaji

Helen L. Bevington Associate Professor of Modern Poetry
English
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
304D Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Writing New Worlds · November 16, 2019 Invited Talk National Women's Studies Association Conference

With Cherríe Moraga, Margaret Noon, Mishuana Goeman (plenary panel)

Cassava Westerns: Caribbean Ears, American Frontiers - Annual Guest Scholar · February 2019 Lecture College of Charleston
Classic Black: Art Songs of the Black Atlantic - Sound Collectives Conference · December 10, 2018 Keynote/Named Lecture Katholische Universitat, Germany
Pride and Paradise: Toni Morrison and the Terrible Frontiers of Freedom - Toni Morrison Society · April 12, 2018 Lecture Oberlin College
Duke University Langford · April 11, 2017 Lecture Duke University
Flights of Imagination: Rerounting Modernity through African Popular Culture - Paper Airwaves, Screen: From Text to Audience in African Popular Culture · 2017 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Bristol, UK
Where Next?: The Global South Out West" - The Global South: A Colloquium · November 19, 2016 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Virginia
(Re)sounding Pan-Africa - Verbal Text and National Literary Historiograpby · November 10, 2016 Keynote/Named Lecture Queen Mary's University, London

Service to the Profession


Participant - Faculty Curriculum on Anti-Racism · January 11, 2021 - January 14, 2021 Professional Development Duke Office of Faculty Advancement

Service to Duke


Participant . Faculty Success Program · 2022 Professional Development National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD)
Bass Connections Faculty Advisory Council (Program) · 2016 - 2018 Committee Service