Conference Review: ‘Protest: Resistance and Dissent in America’
Bianca Scoti and Dr Tomas Pollard review a selection of panels and the keynote lectures at the BAAS Postgraduate Conference (15 November, 2014)
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What has been your most memorable career moment so far?
Giving up my first career in order to start my PhD.
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“How did you come to your current area of research?”
After doing my M.A dissertation on Toni Morrison’s trilogy Beloved, Jazz and Paradise, I really wanted to expand my research on Black Women’s literature. This interest introduced me to Maya Angelou’s autobiographical oeuvre, which became the focus of my PhD research.
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“How did you come to your current area of research?”
In my undergrad poetry class, I read Langston Hughes’ poem “Cross” and I remember telling myself then that I will one day devote my future research on him and his work.
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