Dear Iola Guest Speaker Series: Professor Fielder on mixed-race heroine fiction [full lecture]
Channel: The Dickens Project
Date: 2020-10-30

Professor Fielder will talk about mixed-race heroine fiction, how Frances E. W. Harper’s anti-passing novel Iola Leroy fits into this genre, and some of the important revisions she makes to popular tropes in this genre.

Brigitte Fielder is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is (with Jonathan Senchyne) co-editor of 'Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African-American Print.' Her first book, 'Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America' has just come out from Duke University Press. She is currently working on a book on racialized human-animal relationships in the long nineteenth century.

Professor Fielder’s talk is part of a series of early African-American literature scholars who will be visiting the students.