Exhibition Board - Classics as a Source of Power and Resistance
The relationship between Classics and Black education has been the subject of notable works of literature. The examples quoted on this board come from the late poetry of Melvin Tolson, writing in the 1960s, and from Rita Dove, writing in the 1980s.
African American Writers and Classical Tradition, 2010
Authors: Cook, William W.; Tatum, James
Over the past three decades, the most significant change in the field of Classics has been the turn to studying post-antique responses to Greco-Roman culture. This shift has enabled the inclusion of perspectives from a vast array of times and places. Against this background, William Cook and James Tatum of Dartmouth College (the latter an alumnus of the UT Classics Department) co-authored this pathbreaking study of the role of the Classics in African American writing across three centuries.
Credits: University of Chicago Press
Afro-Greeks : Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century, 2010
Author: Greenwood, Emily
Recent scholarship has sought to undo the geographic confinement of Classics to the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounds. Emily Greenwood’s study of Caribbean receptions of Classics, for example, moves the field away from an interest in minority figures in isolation, encouraging people instead to see rich and diverse traditions grappling with the classical and colonial legacy.
Credits: Oxford University Press
Classics Today: Our Department’s Direction
Authors: Campa, Naomi; Chaudhuri, Pramit
These scholarly developments have a direct and profound impact on teaching. The descriptions of two courses taught by Prof. Naomi Campa and Prof. Pramit Chaudhuri, respectively, illustrate that impact here at UT. Students can now combine learning technical skills in various fields of Classics, such as literature and archaeology, with new perspectives attentive to previously marginalized groups, ranging from slaves in ancient Athens to modern African American writers.
Courtesy of Naomi Campa and Pramit Chaudhuri
