Black History Month - Public Lecture: Professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Join Professor Gerzina in this free online public lecture, exploring the life and work of a newly-rediscovered African-American writer, and what we can learn from it about the Victorian novel.

A former honorary fellow at Exeter, Professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is Paul Murray Kendall Chair in Biography at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prof. Gerzina is a distinguished scholar of both Black British and African American history and literature. She has written seven books, including Black England: Life Before Emancipation (1995) and Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Family Moved out of Slavery and into Legend (2018). In 2016 she presented “Britain’s Black Past” for BBC Radio 4, and is the editor of a new collection of essays based on the series, also called Britain’s Black Past (Liverpool University Press, 2000). In October 2020, she will be appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Private Passions, and will be launching a new podcast on the black presence in British art, called BP2: Black People in British Portraiture, with guests including actor Paterson Joseph (Peep Show, The Leftovers).