Alex Mouw: Practice Job Talk
Please join in as Alex gives his first practice job talk, Phillis Wheatley and the Limits of Lyric after 1945, from 1-2 in the Hurst Lounge.
As we prepare for a string of new job candidates over the coming weeks, we have the pleasure of starting things off with our very own Alex Mouw!
- Phillis Wheatley Peters is broadly recognized as the first African American woman and only the third American woman to publish a book of poems. Her works continues to be studied by historians, and her legacy has inspired generations of writers.
- Born around 1753 in Gambia, Africa, Wheatley was captured by enslavers and brought to America in 1761. Upon arrival, she was sold to the Wheatley family in Boston, Massachusetts. Her first name Phillis was derived from the ship that brought her to America, “the Phillis.”