Lecture on W.E.B. DuBois to take place at Wabash College

Kenneth Warren

CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND. — In honor of the 100th anniversary of the publication, The Souls of Black Folk, Kenneth Warren of the University of Chicago will present a public lecture at Wabash College entitled, “W.E.B. Dubois’s Souls of Black Folk and the Meaning of Progress.” The lecture will take place in Korb Classroom in the Fine Arts Center on Monday, March 31 at 8 p.m.

Warren is the Friedman Professor of English at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism and has written articles on 19th and 20th century American and African American literature. He earned his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1988.

The lecture is sponsored by the Dean of Students, the Multicultural Concerns Committee, the English Department, and the Malcolm X Institute. It is free and open to the public.