The 16th Annual Armistead Colloquium

Coming of (R)age: Black Girlhood + Media

Friday, April 7
4:30–6 PM
Manetti Shrem Museum

In her article “Coming of (R)age: A New Genre for Contemporary Narratives about Black Girlhood,” Dr. Lashon Daley argues that Black girls do not come of age in mediated representations of girlhood in contemporary films. Rather, they come of (r)age. In this talk, Daley discusses how she uses text-mining software to investigate whether coming of (r)age is purely a theoretical framework or if there is also quantitative data to support her claim.

Daley is the director of the National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature with a specialization in Black Children’s Literature, and an affiliate faculty of the Digital Humanities Initiative at San Diego State University.

Organized by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.