Wednesday, March 26, 2025 4pm
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109 Herty Field, Athens, GA 30602
This event is presented as the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies’s annual Betty Jean Craige Lecture, co-sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the UGA Humanities Council as part of the university's 2025 Humanities Festival and the Willson Center's Global Georgia public events series. Author Charles Johnson will read from his work, then take part in a conversation with Hyangsoon Yi, professor of comparative literature and intercultural studies, and Caroline Medine, All Shall Be Well Professor in Religion and director of the Institute for African American Studies.
The Betty Jean Craige Lecture honors Craige, University Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and a former director of the Willson Center. The Institute for African American Studies, the department of English, and the Creative Writing Program are also co-presenters of the event.
Charles Johnson is the author of 27 books, among them the novels Middle Passage, Oxherding Tale, Faith and the Good Thing, and Dreamer; the story collections The Sorcerer's Apprentice (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner award), Soulcatcher and Other Stories, and Dr. King's Refrigerator and Other Bedtime Stories; and works of philosophy and criticism such as Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970 and Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing.
He is also a screenwriter, essayist, professional cartoonist, international lecturer, and for 20 years served as fiction editor of Seattle Review. He received the 1990 National Book Award (fiction) for Middle Passage, NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, a Writers Guild Award for his PBS drama "Booker," two Washington State Governor's Awards for literature, the Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and numerous other prizes and honorary degrees. In 1998 he received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship ("genius" grant), and in 2003 literary scholars founded the Charles Johnson Society at the American Literature Association.
Johnson is Pollock Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Washington.
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