The Dean Speaker Series Presents Dr. David Sterling Brown: “Hear Me, See Me”

Dr. David Sterling Brown will join us on February 20, 2025 to present his talk “‘Hear Me, See Me’: Sex, Violence, Silence and Othello.” The event will be in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library (room 404), and will be free and open to the public.

Dr. David Sterling Brown is a tenured Associate Professor of English at Trinity College (Connecticut). He is the author of Shakespeare’s White Others (Cambridge University Press 2023). He is an editor and speaker and he has published numerous peer-reviewed and public-facing essays. In 2021, he received a prestigious Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship that facilitated his residency with NYU professor and poet Claudia Rankine’s The Racial Imaginary Institute, of which he remains a full-time Curatorial Team member. The Fellowship also facilitated the development of his professional website (www.DavidSterlingBrown.com) and his virtual-reality art gallery and exhibition—“Visualizing Race Virtually”—that complements Shakespeare’s White Others.