DaMaris B. Hill, Associate Professor of Creative Writing, English, and African American Studies, University of Kentucky
In
Conversation with Keegan Cook Finberg, Assistant Professor of English,
and Affiliate Faculty in Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies and
Language, Literacy & Culture, UMBC
DaMaris B. Hill will read from and speak about her poetry collection, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, a narrative-in-verse that bears witness to American women of color burdened by incarceration. In A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing,
Hill presents bitter, unflinching history that artfully captures the
personas of these captivating, bound yet unbridled African-American
women. Hill’s passionate odes to Zora Neale Hurston, Lucille Clifton,
Fannie Lou Hamer, Grace Jones, Eartha Kitt, and others also celebrate
the modern-day inheritors of their load and light, binding history,
author, and reader in an essential legacy of struggle.
Speaker bio: DaMaris B. Hill is the author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland (2020 NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry), The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, and \Vi-zə-bəl\ \Teks-chərs\(Visible Textures).
She has a keen interest in the work of Toni Morrison and theories
regarding ‘rememory’ as a philosophy and aesthetic practice. Similar to
her creative process, Hill’s scholarly research is interdisciplinary.
Hill is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of
Kentucky.
Sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities, the Department of English, and the Department of Africana Studies.
Photo provided by speaker.
[Image
description: A close-up on the face of DaMaris B. Hill, a Black woman,
as she looks off-camera towards the left. She wears a green top and has
on red lipstick.]
