Event: 3rd Annual Gaines Lecture Series

Dr. Keith Clark, Professor of English and African American Studies at George Mason University and a prominent Gaines scholar, will present the 3rd Annual Ernest J. Gaines Lecture. Dr. Clark's lecture is titled "'This gon' be my place': Ernest J. Gaines and the Manifold Meanings of Home."

The lecture will be on Friday, Nov. 20, at 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., in the Ernest J. Gaines Center.

Keith Clark is the author of Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines and August Wilson (2002) and editor of Contemporary Black Men's Fiction and Drama (2001). His latest book, The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry (2013), was published by LSU Press. His articles on Gaines include "Que(e)rying the Prison-House of Black Male Desire: Homosociality in Ernest Gaines's 'Three Men.'" His articles have been published in African American Review, Callaloo, Faulkner Studies, and other journals and collections. At present, he is working on a book on the fiction of Ernest J. Gaines. In a featured session at the 2014 Louisiana Book Festival, Dr. Clark conducted an interview and discussion with Gaines for a standing-room-only audience in the House Chamber of the Louisiana State Capitol.

The event will take place in the Gaines Center, located on the 3rd floor.

This presentation is open to the public, free of charge.

For more information, contact Cheylon Woods, Archivist and Head of the Ernest J. Gaines Center at cheylon.woods@louisiana.edu or at (337) 482-1848. Opened in 2010, the Ernest J. Gaines Center is an international center for scholarship, programming, and community outreach on Ernest J. Gaines and his work. The center honors the work of UL Lafayette’s Writer-In-Residence Emeritus and provides a space for scholars and students to work with the Gaines papers and manuscripts.