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| Nathan Moore |
Nathan Moore, a University of Kentucky English
senior from Louisville who is also a UK Libraries Undergraduate
Diversity Scholar Intern, presented the 21st annual Edward
T. Breathitt Undergraduate Lectureship in the Humanities on January 22. Moore's lecture focused on intersections of
African American literature, history, and cultural memory.
The Breathitt Lectureship is named for an outstanding
UK alumnus who showed an exceptional interest in higher education and the
humanities, Governor Edward T. Breathitt. The lectureship is awarded to an
undergraduate who has eloquently expressed the qualities of mind and spirit,
including one or more of the basic concerns of the humanities: form, value and
memory. Each year all undergraduate students are invited to apply for the
lectureship.
Moore's lecture, "Subjugation and the Supernatural:
The Ethnogothic in African American Letters," explored slave
narratives. Moore discussed how former slaves used conventions of Gothic
fiction to expose the brutality of their enslavement. Through discussions of
genre, he examined how this traumatic history is left silent in many
contemporary discussions of race and class.
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