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Vincent Carretta on the Autobiographer Olaudah Equiano Nov. 10, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library University of Kentucky Lexington The University of Kentucky American Studies Program and Department of History present "The Challenge of Writing a Biography of the Autobiographer Olaudah Equiano", a lecture by Vincent Carretta. Carretta, Professor of English at the University of Maryland, specializes in eighteenth-century transatlantic historical and literary studies. Author of more than 100 articles and reviews, Carretta has also written and edited eleven books, most recently _Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man_ (2005) and _The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque The First African Anglican Missionary_, forthcoming in 2010. Carretta’s current project is a biography of Phillis Wheatley. He has recently held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the John Carter Brown Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the University of London, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University, and the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton Free and open to the public. More info 859-257-1994. Contact: klburc2@uky.edu -- Randolph Hollingsworth, Ph.D. University of Kentucky H-Kentucky List Editor hollings@mail.h-net.msu.edu http://www.h-net.org/~kentucky/
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