Wednesday, October 21 2015, 4pm Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries; Hargrett Special Collections Library, 2nd floor Christopher Hager, is an associate professor of English at Trinity College. "Hager is one of the preeminent young scholars of 19-century African-American history and culture. His first book, “Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing,” was published by Harvard University Press in 2013, and was a finalist for both the Frederick Douglass Prize and the Gilder Lehrman Prize, which are awarded annually to the best book on slavery and the Civil War era (respectively). He is the recipient of prestigious, year-long fellowships from both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He also has published articles in the field’s top journals, including “American Literature” and “J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists,” and has work forthcoming in “The Cambridge History of the American Civil War,” “Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War,” “Literary Cultures of the Civil War” and other venues." (From the Willson Center.)
