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Guest Lecture by Dr. Crystal Rudds: "Invisibility Blues: Interiors and Interiority in Public Housing Narratives"
February 27, 2023 • 4:30 PM
Viking Union 552
516 High St
Bellingham, WA 98225
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Free to Attend
The WWU English Department will host Dr. Crystal Rudds. “Invisibility Blues: Interiors and Interiority in Public Housing Narratives" examines depictions of housing in narratives ranging from Gloria Naylor's 1980s Brewster Place trilogy to Barry Jenkins' 2016 film Moonlight. Focusing on the latter, Rudds argues that urban films that feature public housing as a setting draw dissembling portraits of Black masculinity while seeming to tell all about public housing spaces. Moonlight’s aesthetic defamiliarization sets it apart and helps us think through the problem of (re)producing the private spaces of Black men for public consumption. Dr. Crystal S. Rudds is Assistant Professor of English at The University of Utah. She served as the assistant editor of the oral history, High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing (2013) and is currently working on a book project that explores representations of public housing in film, African American literature, photography, and ethnographic narratives.
