Expert on Toni Morrison to Give Talk at Wabash

Carolyn Medine

Crawfordsville, Ind. — The Wabash College English Department, the Multicultural Concerns Committee, and The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion is pleased to announce the visit to campus of Carolyn Medine, associate professor in religion and the Institute of African American Studies at the University of Georgia. On Thursday evening, February 20, she will speak on the topic of “The Ancestor as Foundation in Toni Morrison’s Fiction” The lecture will start at 8 p.m. in Center Hall, Room 216.

Medine has served as co-chair for the arts, literature, and religion section of the American Academy of Religion and on its committee on ethnic and racial minority scholars in the profession. Medine’s teaching and research interests include religion and literature, particularly using African American and southern literature and culture; ancient and modern literature and ethics, and postmodern and postcolonial theory. She has published numerous articles on the work of Harper Lee, Wole Soyinka, Toni Morrison, Albert Murray, D. H. Lawrence, and others. She just finished a book on Toni Morrison.

Medine’s talk is free and open to public.