Howard Rambsy II

Books, authors, conversations, analysis, datasets—there’s so much to explore on blacklitnetwork.org. You might just find your next read that you didn’t even know you needed! 📚

Another Season of Toni Morrison The last eight months have seen a surge of Toni Morrison coverage, extending the visibility of our most canonized Black writer even further....

Another Season of Toni Morrison -- shorturl.at/FalYG

How book recommendations at a barbershop led to an online network to find Black literature : St. Louis on the Air Inspired by barbershop chats and a brotherly contest over hip-hop facts, the Black Lit Network is a digital resource designed to make African American literature more widely accessible. Southern Illin...

Take a listen to @hrambsy.bsky.social’s interview about the Black Lit Network on @stlpublicradio.bsky.social! From the barbershop to the classroom, it’s a project deeply rooted in a genuinely public humanities. When you’re done, visit www.blacklitnetwork.org and try it out! #DigitalHumanities

Look, we always talk about @alondra.bsky.social the founding Afrofuturist or her as the coordinator and dean or how she's a distinguished professor. But goodness, we have not said nearly enough about Alondra Nelson the exquisite writer. Whew.

Reflection on reaching 200 podcast episodes We somehow did it: produced 200 episodes our podcast Remarkable Receptions.  We launched our first episodes on June 28, 2022, and we posted ...

Ok, a few notes on producing a podcast about critical and popular responses to African American novels, artistic productions, and more.
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The Rise of Afrofuturism in the 1990s A brief take on how Alondra Nelson’s Yahoo group in the 1990s shaped the rise of Afrofuturism through discussions on race, tech, and Black c...

Here's a short piece on the rise of Afrofuturism during the late 1990s.
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I’ve been a college professor for 21 years now. I’ve been covering Nikki Giovanni’s “Ego Tripping” for 21 years now.

"...for which I was his assistant."

See now, you got me wanting an essay from you on that experience. Ha.

#DayOfDH2024

Ok, some Black novel combinations, starting here.
Three novels with unnamed protagonists:
James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952)
Colson Whitehead's Apex Hides the Hurt (2006)

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Literary scholar: I'm suggesting that the cup and its contents are metaphorical, and intersectionality provides a lens for us to (re)read the interplay between the container and what it holds.