Ebony Flowers, an award-winning graphic novelist and educator, will be a visiting
scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences from October 21-25. Please join us to
learn more about her exploration of African American life and culture through autobiographical
comics. She will also share her expertise with comics-making across disciplines in
research and education.
October 21, 6:30 p.m. | Lumpkin Auditorium, Close-Hipp
This lecture is open to the public. It will include time for questions from the audience.
A book signing will follow.
Flowers will talk about her journey into making comics and her creative practice.
She also will read excerpts from her upcoming book, Baltimore Brownfield.
Making Comics for Research
October 25, 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Gambrell 429
Participants will draw, write, and make comics to access a more picture-based approach
to creating literature reviews. No drawing experience is necessary, and lunch will
be provided. Faculty and graduate students from any discipline are welcome. Register here.
In addition to these appearances, Flowers will meet with faculty and students engaged
in studio art, comic studies, creative writing and other related topics.
Ebony Flowers is a cartoonist, author, and educator. She holds a BA in Biological
Anthropology from the University of Maryland-College Park and a PhD in Curriculum
and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her fiction and creative
non-fiction have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, and the Paris Review. She is the creator of the graphic novel, Hot Comb, which received the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel, the Believer Award
for Fiction, the Eisner Award for Best Short Story, and a NAACP Image Award nomination
in 2020. Ebony was a Mary I. Bunting Fellow for Fiction at the Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2022-2023. Her next graphic novel, Baltimore Brownfield, will be released in 2025 by Drawn and Quarterly.
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