Department of English

Chosen for her expertise in African-American and Southern literature, author and poet Thadious Davis was one of the first professors recruited by Penn President Amy Gutmann.

On March 16, Davis was honored by Gutmann and her colleagues at a symposium, “Imagining the Raced Space of Freedom,” which included panels of scholars from Penn and a dozen other universities who discussed her work at a Perry World House event. 

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