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Join the Summer Lecture Series Featuring Gene Andrew Jarrett
Aug
22

Join the Summer Lecture Series Featuring Gene Andrew Jarrett

Experience a literary journey at The Mount Edith Wharton's Home's summer lecture series, featuring Gene Andrew Jarrett's masterfully crafted biography - the first comprehensive portrayal of the poet's life in the last fifty years. Jarrett's work peels back the layers of Dunbar's public persona as the celebrated "poet laureate of his race," revealing the private trials of a man who, mirroring his renowned poem, lived like a 'caged bird' that sings. Profoundly detailed and generously illustrated, Jarrett's biography presents Dunbar's most in-depth and intimate portrait, promising to revolutionize our understanding of this influential figure in American literary history.

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Social Justice Speaker Series: Dr. Gene Andrew Jarrett
Feb
2

Social Justice Speaker Series: Dr. Gene Andrew Jarrett

Hear Dr. Gene Andrew Jarrett, author of The Life and Times of a Caged Bird, tell the fascinating story of how Dunbar excelled against all odds to become an accomplished and versatile artist. Gene is Dean of the Faculty, and William S. Tod Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature. This program is in partnership with the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park and sponsored by Friends of the Library foundation.

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Gene Jarrett & Simon Gikandi – Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
Nov
3

Gene Jarrett & Simon Gikandi – Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird

Please join us at Labyrinth for a conversation between Dean of the Faculty and Professor of English at Princeton, Gene Jarrett, and his colleague in the English Department, Simon Gikandi, about Dunbar who, born during Reconstruction to formerly enslaved parents, excelled against all odds to become an accomplished and versatile artist.

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Gene Andrew Jarrett | Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times
Jun
16

Gene Andrew Jarrett | Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times

In conversation with Herman Beavers, Julie Beren Platt, and Marc E. Platt, President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, we welcome Gene Andrew Jarrett, author of the new book Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird. Gene will discuss his new book at the Free Public Library of Philadelphia.

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'The Life and Times of a Caged Bird: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the World He Made'
Mar
24

'The Life and Times of a Caged Bird: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the World He Made'

Hosted by the Hutchins Center, this virtual lecture draws upon a biography I completed about Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first African American professional writer born after slavery. Gene tells a comprehensive yet intimate story of an African American, in Dunbar, who wrestled with the constraints of Gilded Age America, yet who sought to express or mitigate this strife through the written and spoken word.

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