Hurston on the Horizon at KU

“Hurston on the Horizon: Past, Present and Future”| HBW's NEH Virtual Institute, July 2021| Applications due March 1:

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

Today was the last day of the Hurston on the Horizon NEH Summer Institute. Special thanks to the staff and each and every participant who made this moving and engaging work possible! Thank you for being present with us. #HurstonontheHorizon #HotH #Hurston2021

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

"What we have in Hurston’s dossier is an ambivalent theory of Black critique, one that resists, or refuses, the need for Black culture to be made more static than it is."- Dr. Kevin Quashie on "Hurston as Literary Theorist" #Zora #BlackWomen #Hurston2021 #AcademicTwitter

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

"Hurston's work to produce knowledge allowed that kind of mobility to move outside of spaces that other women of her time period weren't able to do" - LaMonda Horton-Stallings #HotH #HurstonontheHorizon #ZoraNealeHurston

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

#HotH #HurstonontheHorizon #critique #criticism #reading #Hurston2021

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

"Reading is not a transparent act. Critique studies is asking the general question about how one reads, whether you're reading to unearth something, as a reparative act, or with an openness...while criticism is about accessing and analyzing a text" - Kevin Quashie

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

Today begins the final week of @ProjectHBW's "Hurston on the Horizon" NEH Virtual Summer Institute 2021! Dr. Kevin Quashie is our resident faculty for the week #HurstonsHorizon #HotH #HurstonontheHorizon #Hurston2021 #ZoraNealeHurston

[Dr. Irma McClaurin, speaking only for myself @mcclaurintweets]

Just sat in audience yesterday for wonderful performances of #zoranealehurston plays by @KCMeltingPot sponsored by @TheZNHInstitute. Support #blacktheater! @citeblackwomen @BlackFeminisms @EatonvilleCHF @zorafestival @zoramag @ABA_AAA @BlackFeminisms @gevatheatre @AmericanAnthro

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

"To fully understand [Hurston's] work in the absence of her letters is impossible. They are critical to understanding her work"- Carla Kaplan, author of "Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters" (2002) #HurstonsHorizon #HOTH #Hurston2021 #ZoraNealeHurston

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

LIVE NOW: Our NEH Summer Scholars discuss the Black feminist and womanist implications of Hurston's methods and practices in her ethnographic research! #Zora #Hurston2021 #BlackCulture #BlackWomen #BlackFeminism #Womanist #Ethnographic #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

#Barracoon #HurstonsHorizon #Hurston2021 #DeborahPlant #ZoraNealeHurston

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

"The narrative space [Hurston] creates for Kossola’s unburdening is sacred. Rather than insert herself into the narrative as the learned and probing cultural anthropologist...Zora Neale Hurston, in her still listening, assumes the office of a priest." - Deborah Plant

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #BlackHistory

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

LIVE NOW: NEH Summer Scholars engage in a rich discussion of Dr. Ayesha Hardison's "The Neglect of an Icon: Rereading and Rethinking Seraph on the Suwanee." #Zora #BlackLiterature #BlackWomen #theSouth #Hurston2021

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

#Zora #Hurston #blackculture #theSouth #BlackWomen #Hurston2021

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

“What we want to know about [Hurston], we’re not going to find out through her field notes. Who she was as a social scientist precedes her academic training. There’s something about genius that you can’t explain." - Dr. Deborah Plant on “Hurston, Innovation, and Ethnography”

[NEH Education @NEH_Education]

25 #Highered faculty continue to reexamine the works of Zora Neal Hurston in the 3-week #NEHgrant-funded https://t.co/txu0TV7ahQ“Hurston on the Horizon”

What’s your favorite work by this great author, anthropologist, journalist and filmmaker?

#HBCUs #NEHgrant

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

Today begins Week 2 of @ProjectHBW's "Hurston on the Horizon" Virtual Summer Institute 2021! This week's focus is The "Other" Hurston, her essays, ethnographies, letters, and more #HurstonsHorizon #Hurston2021 #ZoraNealeHurston

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

"The constellation of ideology inspired by Hurston and by extension the Black speculative epistimology represented by Eatonville is crucial to understanding Hurston's importance to our current moment." - Dr. Julian Chambliss #Zora #afrofuturism #blackness #blackDH #BlackWomen

[Leah Abuan Milne 🌺 is on Bluesky @DrMLovesLit]

Excited to begin the @NEHgov Hurston on the Horizon summer institute with @ProjectHBW and @TheZNHInstitute!

[Hurston on the Horizon at KU @TheZNHInstitute]

"'If you can be free, be a mystery'-- This wonderful phrase is very Hurston; she made herself a mystery. She didn't want to be typecast in anyway. The inspiration was to be a mystery" - Glenda Carpio #HurstonsHorizon #Hurston2021 #academictwitter