Law & Literature Workshop: Edlie Wong

Faculty of Law University of Toronto

Law & Literature Workshop Series

2009 - 2010

presents

Edlie Wong

Rutgers University Dept. of English

The Gender of Freedom before Dred Scott

Edlie Wong is an associate professor of English at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick where she teaches nineteenth-century American and African American literature. She has just completed her first book, Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (New York University Press, 2009) and has begun work on a second book project, From Emancipation to Exclusion: Contract, Citizens, and Coolies. Her work has appeared in American Literature, African American Review, American Quarterly, Prose Studies and in anthologies, including American Literary Geographies (Delaware 2007) and The Image and the Witness (Wallflower 2007).

Friday, September 18, 2009

12:30 – 2:00

Solarium, Falconer Hall

84 Queen’s Park

Toronto Canada M5C 2C5

A light lunch will be provided.

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.