Vincent Carretta, Guest Lecture: “Recovering the Life of Phillis Wheatley Peters, ‘A WONDER of the Age Indeed!’”

Monday, April 3, 4:30 pm, Webinar

Presented by the Colloquium in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature, as part of the year-long series The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters: A Poet and Her Legacies.

Dr. Carretta is a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author or editor of more than 10 books, including scholarly editions of the writings of Phillis Wheatley Peters, Olaudah Equiano, Ignatius Sancho, and Ottobah Cugoano. This talk will focus on the revised edition of Carretta's acclaimed biography Phillis Wheatley Peters: A Biography of a Genius in Bondage, forthcoming in Spring 2023 from the University of Georgia Press. Carretta's other books include Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man and The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary, coedited with Ty M. Reese. This event is part of The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters: A Poet and Her Legacies, a year-long partnership project by the University of Georgia and Texas Christian University on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the 1773 publication of Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. It is also part of the Global Georgia public event series of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

The talk will be conducted online as a Zoom webinar. Registration is free and open to the public. Please register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ENq5TgfEQRGBMtdBr2vQSg

This event is sponsored by the Colloquium in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature, the Interdisciplinary Modernism Workshop, the Willson Center, and the Rodney Baine Lecture fund.