Friday, February 27, 2026 |
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM CT
University Hall, UH 201: The Hagstrum Room, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
NOÉMIE NDIAYE is an Associate Professor of English and French Literature at the
University of Chicago. She works on early modern English, French, and Spanish theater
with a critical focus on race. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Scripts of
Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (Penn Press 2022) and
the co-editor, with Lia Markey, of the award-winning Seeing Race Before Race: Visual
Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World (ACMRS Press 2023, open access).
Her new monograph, The Whiteness Between Us: Early Modern Playbooks of Racial
Triangulation is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press (September 2026).
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- Academic (general)