Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College

Yvette Christiansë - A Reading

Yvette Christiansë is an Assistant Professor at Fordham University's Department of English. She was born and raised in the Republic of South Africa, and lived for some years in Swaziland. She has lived in Australia, to which her family migrated to escape apartheid. As a poet, fiction writer and scholar, her work has been published in Australia, the United States, South Africa and Canada. Her book of poetry Castaway was nominated for the Pen International Poetry Award in 2001. In Australia, she was the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including one of the country's highest honors for poetry, The Harri Jones Memorial Prize. She received her Ph.D. from The University of Sydney. Her scholarship combines her doubled interests as scholar and poet. At Fordham University, she teaches African-American and South African literatures, as well as literatures of the African diaspora, poetics and race studies. Her novel Unconfessed, based on the life of a slave woman in the Cape Colony, was published by Other Press in 2006 and was a finalist for the 2007 Pen/Hemingway Prize for Fiction.

Professor Christiansë will do a reading from her book Castaway and then conduct a Q and A session.

Cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Dickey Center for International Understanding.