English Majors Talk Series

David Shimomura '13

THEORIZING THE GAME 

We must be acutely, disturbingly aware
of the games we are using and that are using us.

Grace Ross '12

SERIOUS SISTERS
Representations of Black Womanhood

Focusing on themes of sisterhood, domestic violence,
abortion, motherhood, and the body,
playwrights Pearl Cleage and Kia Corthron employ
narrative and dramatic strategies that reassess the
black female condition through linguistic and
corporeal empowerment.