Lisa Brooks, Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College: “Writing from Wabanaki”

Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies  

Professor Lisa Brooks, Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College and author most recently of Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, will speak on: “Writing from Wabanaki,” Tuesday, September 24 at 6:00 pm.

In “Writing from Wabanaki,” Brooks asks, "What does it mean to view the eighteenth century northeast from a Wabanaki frame of reference, through Indigenous lenses? How can Indigenous place names, maps, writings and speeches from the eighteenth century shift the paradigms through which we think about environmental history, climate change, gender, migration and immigration?” She will speak about her experience as a historian and literary scholar, working with these sources, and in places, and consider how this process has led her to broader questions not necessarily confined by chronological time.

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