BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3119-481627656e1569a4739dbb687ced52a7@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T212151Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T130000 SUMMARY:AFAM Presents a Lecture with Harilaos Stecopoulus: “Diasporic Diplomacy: Black Literary Ambassadors and the Cultural Cold War” DESCRIPTION:\nThis presentation draws on Professor Stecopoulos&rsquo\;s recent book Telling America'\;s Story to the World: Literature\, Inte rnationalism\, Cultural Diplomacy (Oxford 2022)\, which reconsiders tran snational American Studies in light of the struggle between U.S. cultura l diplomacy and the global activism of U.S. writers. After providing an overview of the project\, Professor Stecopoulos will focus on Langston H ughes\, Ralph Ellison\, and other Black literary ambassadors who worked with&mdash\;and against&mdash\;the U.S. government&rsquo\;s propaganda c ampaign in sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nHarilaos Stecopoulos is professor of E nglish at the University of lowa. The former editor of\n\nThe lowa Revie w\, he has published four books: Race and the Subject of Masculinities ( Duke\n\n1997)\; Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and US Imper ialisms\, 1898&ndash\;1976 (Cornell 2008)\; A History of the Literature of the U.S. South (Cambridge 2020)\; and Telling America'\;s Story to the World: Literature\, Internationalism\, Cultural Diplomacy (Oxford 2 022). He is currently at work on a new project\, &rdquo\;The Heat of Mod ernity: American Modernism and the Energy Economy.&ldquo\;\n\nFor more d etails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afam_harilaos_stecopoulus_9-22-2 3/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

This presentati on draws on Professor Stecopoulos’s recent book Telling America 's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplom acy (Oxford 2022), which reconsiders transnational American Studies in light of the struggle between U.S. cultural diplomacy and the global activism of U.S. writers. After providing an overview of the project, Pr ofessor Stecopoulos will focus on Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and ot her Black literary ambassadors who worked with—and against—t he U.S. government’s propaganda campaign in sub-Saharan Africa.

Harilaos Stecopoulos is professor of English at the Universit y of lowa. The former editor of
The lowa Review, he has published f our books: Race and the Subject of Masculinities (Duke
1997) ; Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and US Imperialisms, 18 98–1976 (Cornell 2008); A History of the Literature of the U.S. South (Cambridge 2020); and Telling America's Story to t he World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy (Oxford 2 022). He is currently at work on a new project, ”The Heat of Moder nity: American Modernism and the Energy Economy.“

For more d etails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afam_harilaos_stecopoulus_9 -22-23/

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