Sterling A. Brown: A Beacon for These Times

Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and Humanities

In this talk, Imani Perry—co-founding faculty director and PI of the Black Teacher Archive—will discuss her next book on the life and work of Sterling A. Brown, poet of the New Negro Renaissance. Brown, a critic and professor for 40 years at Howard University, educated and mentored many literary luminaries and activists, including Toni Morrison, Stokely Carmichael, Lucille Clifton, and James Baldwin. Perry is Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and Humanities was established to honor the late Julia S. Phelps, a longtime instructor in the Radcliffe Seminars, and is supported by the generous contributions of her family, friends, and colleagues.