The Center for American Literary Studies presents the 2025 CALS Spring Symposium.

11:00 a.m. “(Even) In Terrible Days, For the Love of Reading.”

Presented by Kevin Quashie, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in English, Brown University.

Moderator: Gabrielle Foreman, Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History, Penn State.

3:00 p.m. “Cross-Cultural Harlem: Theory, Method and Field”

Presented by Sandhya Shukla, associate professor of English and American studies, University of Virginia

Moderator: Keith Gilyard, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies, Penn State.