Sarah Meer - Identities on Stage

Seminarau Paul Robeson Seminar Series
Dr Sarah Meer

Cambridge University
Prifysgol Caergrawnt

Irish/Native/African American Identities on Stage in New York after the Civil War”

4pm Wednesday 9 March, 2011
Room 216, Keir Hardie Building



4pm Dydd Mercher, 9 Mawrth 2011
Ystafell 216, Adeilad Keir Hardie


Sarah Meer teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature at Selwyn College, Cambridge University. Her research interests include discussions of race and slavery in the mid-nineteenth century, the relationships between literature and popular culture (especially the theatre and spectacular entertainments),and African-American literature. Her book Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s was published in 2005, and she has also co-edited, with Denise Kohn and Emily Todd, Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture (2006).

Am wybodaeth bellach / For further details please contact Rachel Farebrother r.l.farebrother@swansea.ac.uk