Erica Cavanah interviewed by Qyaira Colbert, 2019

Creator:

Cavanagh, Erica, Colbert, Qyaira, Chang, Angelina Ingrassia, and Nemergut, Margaret

Extent:

712.8 Megabytes 1 digital file and 00:41:14 Duration (HH:MM:SS.mmm)

Scope and content:

Records an interview with Erica Cavanagh, James Madison University faculty member and alumna, who reflects on her undergraduate years from 1993 to 1996 and later academic and teaching career. The interview documents her B.A. in English and Art History, participation in Dr. Joanne Gabbin's African American Poetry course during the inaugural Furious Flower Poetry Conference in 1994, and the course's emphasis on the Black Aesthetic, including jazz, blues, spirituals, biblical allusions, and vernacular traditions. Discusses her graduate studies at the University of Chicago focusing on poet Rita Dove, her attendance at Gwendolyn Brooks's funeral in 2000, and her ongoing work teaching African American literature and food studies at JMU, highlighting continuity between her student experiences and later pedagogy.

Language:

English

Physical facet:

(.wav)

Names:

Cavanagh, Erica
Colbert, Qyaira
Chang, Angelina Ingrassia
Nemergut, Margaret

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