UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Sam Tenorio, a postdoctoral fellow with the Africana Research Center at Penn State, will present “Pip's Jumps: Black Politics and White Authorities in Melville's Moby Dick” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 14, in 102 Kern Building at University Park.
Tenorio holds a dual affiliation with the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Tenorio earned a doctorate in African-American studies with a subfield in political theory from Northwestern University in 2018. Tenorio’s research interests revolve primarily around black political thought, anarchism, carcerality, as well as the history of chattel slavery and its afterlives. Tenorio is currently working on a book manuscript that provides a socio-spatial account of black anarchism that emerges from a central concern with enslaved Africans' jumps from the slave ship. The project aims to demonstrate how a substantive theoretical attention to these jumps generates possibilities for thinking about black radical politics differently.
This event is a part of the Comparative Literature Luncheon lecture series, a weekly, informal lunchtime gathering of students, faculty and other members of the University community. Each week the event begins at 12:15 p.m. -- coffee is provided. At 12:30 p.m. there will be a presentation, by a visitor or a local speaker, on a topic related to any humanities discipline. All students, faculty, colleagues and friends are welcome.
For a full list of Comparative Literature lunches, visit http://complit.la.psu.edu/news-events/comp-lit-luncheon-series. This event is sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for Global Studies, and the Center for Humanities and Information.