Distinguished Professor of English Maxine Montgomery will be giving a lecture at 2 p.m. March 22 in the Williams Building (Common Room, 013). The title of Dr. Montgomery's talk is "Archiving the Unseen: Gloria Naylor and Contemporary Black Women's Literary History." A small reception will follow. All are welcome.

Dr. Maxine L. Montgomery is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor in English.  Her articles have appeared in African American Review; Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International; College Language Association Journal; and the South Carolina Review. As a recipient of a 2021-22 National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant for “Engaging Gloria Naylor’s Archives,” she is currently editing a collection of new critical essays on the intersection between Naylor’s unpublished papers and published works. Her most recent book, The Post Apocalyptic Black Female Imagination (Bloomsbury, 2021), examines representations of futurity in fiction and visual culture by African diaspora black women.

This lecture is part of “Pens in Progress: A Series of Faculty Talks,” sponsored by the FSU English Department.