Susan Gillman: American Mediterraneans

This conversation, recorded on May 26, was presented as part of the Inside the Center series to celebrate the launch of former Humanities Center fellow (1993-94) Susan Gillman’s book "American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race."

Gillman was joined by current SHC fellow David Kazanjian (English, Univ. of Pennsylvania), author of "The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Duke UP, 2016), and Camilla Hawthorne (Sociology, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), author of "Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean" (Cornell UP, forthcoming June 2022) and co-editor, with Gabriele Proglio et al, of "The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

About the Author
Susan Gillman is Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of two University of Chicago Press books, "Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America" (1989) and "Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult" (2003). She has worked collaboratively on several essay collections, most recently with co-editor Christopher Castiglia, "Neither the Time nor the Place: Today’s Nineteenth Century" (University of Pennsylvania Press, April 2022). Her new book, "American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race" (University of Chicago Press, May 2022), traces the strange career of the “American Mediterranean,” a scholarly metaphor and folk geographical concept used in multiple disciplines, genres and languages, as a point of departure for a transnational and translational study of the Americas.

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