Citizen: An American Lyric

<h4>Roderick A. Ferguson is professor of African American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago and co-director of the Racialized Body research cluster. He is the author <em>Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique</em> and <em>The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference</em>.</h4>

Roderick A. Ferguson

<h4>Evie Shockley is a poet from Nashville, Tennnessee. Her most recent book is <i>the new black</i> (Wesleyan University Press, 2011). </h4>

Evie Shockley

<h4>Maria Windell is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is completing the manuscript for her first book project, <em>Sentimental Diplomacy: US Literary History and the Transamerican Nineteenth Century</em>, which argues that as the US reacted to and intervened in conflicts such as the Haitian Revolution, the US-Mexican War, and Cuba’s wars for independence, a particular thread of sentimental discourse actively engaged anxieties about national identity, permeable national boundaries, and the expanding US imperial presence. Her second book project, <em>Novel Imperial Imaginaries: Early US Military, Diplomatic, and Literary History</em>, explores how late-18th-century and 19th-century military and diplomatic writings reconfigure US literary developments. Her work has appeared in such journals as <em>Nineteenth-Century Literature</em> and <em>J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists</em>.</h4>

Maria A. Windell

<h4>Daniel Worden is the author of <em>Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism</em> (Palgrave, 2011), the editor of <em>The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World </em>(Mississippi, 2015), and the coeditor of <em>Oil Culture</em> (Minnesota, 2014) and <em>Postmodern/Postwar — &amp; After</em> (Iowa, 2016). He lives in Rochester, New York.</h4>

Daniel Worden

Reconsidering Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric. A Symposium, Part I

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Roderick A. Ferguson is professor of African American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago and co-director of the Racialized Body research cluster. He is the author <em>Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique</em> and <em>The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference</em>.