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Brown University
The Department of English presents:
K. Ian Grandison
University Professor, University of Virginia
Thursday, April 20, 2006
4:00 pm
at The Department of English
70 Brown Street
Barker Presentation Room 315
"Razing the Dead: Interment and American
Spatial Ideology at Jefferson's Monticello"
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K. Ian Grandison is a landscape architect and University Professor at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. His work has appeared in books and journals across a wide range of fields. His best-known essays are "Landscapes of Terror: A Reading of Tuskegee's Historic Campus, 1881-1915," published in The Geography of Identity, and "Negotiated Space: The Black College Campus as Cultural Record of Postbellum America," which appeared in American Quarterly. He is currently at work on "Landscapes from the Bottoms: The Black College Campus as Cultural History," a book concerned with how the campuses of historically black colleges and universities record not only the African-American struggle for higher education in the postbellum South but also race relations during that period. Melding theory and methods from social history and cultural studies with those of architecture, landscape architecture, and cultural geography, the work engages black college campuses as "landscapes from below" as it interrogates formalist assumptions that still underlie much of the discourse on the built environment.
Reception to follow
Co-sponsored by The Office of the President, The American Seminar at Brown, the Department of American Civilization, and The Visiting Scholars in Residence Program funded by the Dean of the College and the Office of Student Life.
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