Thursday, November 11 at 5:00, LC 317.
Sponsored by the English Department with support from the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale.
Hilton Als is a theater critic for The New Yorker, a former staff writer for The Village Voice and editor-at-large for Vibe Magazine. He has won awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the George J. Nathan Prize for dramatic criticism. Als edited the catalogue for the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition entitled “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art.” His first book, The Women, a meditation on gender, race, and personal identity, appeared in 1996. He contributed to the film, Looking for Langston, an exploration of race and sexual identity in the Harlem Renaissance and the life of Langston Hughes. In 2009, Als worked with the performer Justin Bond on “Cold Water,” an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and videos by performers, at La MaMa Gallery in New York. In 2010, he co-curated “Self-Consciousness” at the Veneklasen Werner Gallery in Berlin, and published Justin Bond/Jackie Curtis, his second book. He has taught classes at Smith College, Wesleyan, and Yale. Free and open to the public.