Brigitte Fielder is an Associates Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteeth-Centiry America (Duke, 2020) and co-author (with Jonathan Senchyne) of Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). She is currently writing a book on Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry for Oxford University Press's Children's Classics, Critically series and another on racialized, human-animal relationships in the long nineteeth century. Her newest project takes an early view of Afrofuturism, reading Black people's uses of "old" technology and hopeful speculation to craft futures for younger Black generations.

This event is co-sponsored by English and Afircan American Studies.