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The Project on the History of Black Writing

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Department of English

The Black Book Interactive Project, the brainchild of HBW, has received a Digital Extension Grant of $150,000 from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to expand the project and make more Black novels digitally available. Please read more about the announcement here and here.

Professor Paul Ortiz - Hall Center Lecture, Sept. 19 7pm

More than 1800 students had an opportunity to visit with award-winning author Edwidge Danticat, whose book Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Author at Work is the 2018 KU Common Book Selection. Above, Danticat is featured in a session at the Spencer Museum in front of the imposing image of Ulrick Jean-Pierre's Queen Anacoana. The work of Jean-Pierre will remain on exhibit through January 7, 2019. The artist will return to speak about his oeuvre at KU's "Unexpected Caribbean Symposium," October 18-20: "Unexpected Caribbean Symposium," October 18-20, 2018.

Pathways Beyond The Professoriate, Oct. 1, Hall Center for the Humanities

Vincent Omni, Morgan Mccomb, and Mona Ahmed presenting at the 78th CLA Conference Chicago, 2018.

Founding HBW Board member Dr. Jerry W. Ward, receives the Daryl Cumber Dance Lifetime Achievement Award at the 78th annual Conference of the College Language Association, Chicago, April 6, 2018. Ward is joined by Dr. Joanne Gabbin, Director, Furious Flower Poetry Center, JMU, and HBW director M. Graham.

University of Chicago Black Book Interactive Project Staff members

Dr. Hoyt Long, Simone Oliver, Jennifer Chukwu, Athena Kern: University of Chicago partners on the Black Book Interactive Project.

Welcome to the Project on the History of Black Writing!

Fall 2017 Black Literary Suite at Kansus Union Gallery: "Women Writing Women: Reclaiming the Black Body!

HBW Staff & Friends at the "Soul of Zora" Exhibit during the Black Love Symposium

Diverse Academic Careers Workshop with N.Y. Nathiri, Executive Director, Association for the Preservation of the Eatonville Community. The workshop for CLAS graduate students was held at the Hall Center September 15, 2017 as part of KU's Black Love Symposium. Participants, Read more »

DIGIN is a collaboration between the University of Chicago and the University of Kansas. The collaboration is a precursor to the Black Book Interactive Project, an ongoing effort to digitize books by black authors and about black culture in order to make them more accessible to the public. The KU Scanning team for the Digital Inclusion Group Initiative (left to right): Dominique Waller, Connor Noteboom, and Mona Ahmed - June 2016.

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