Guest Lecture by Prof. Kimberly Juanita Brown (Dartmouth College): „Grief in the Dark“

Kimberly Juanita Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College. In her research, she engages with the intersection of African American/African diaspora literature and visual culture studies, focusing in particular on the relationship between visuality and Black subjectivity. Her latest publication, Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual (MIT Press, 2024), explores the relationship between photography and histories of anti-Blackness on the cusp of the twenty-first century. In her forthcoming book, Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning (MIT Press, 2025), Kimberly Juanita Brown explores the form of the elegy and its unique capacity to mediate the elongated grief that results from sustained racial violence.