Project on the History of Black Writing

Project on the History of Black Writing

The Project on the History of Black Writing

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Ayesha Hardison
Director Associate Professor, English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Courtesy Appointment in African and African-American Studies University of Kansas
Maryemma Graham
Founder Professor, Department of English University of Kansas

American Council of Learned Societies

National Endowment for the Humanities

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Afro PWW

HBCU Library Alliance

College Language Association

Chicago Text Lab

The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities

HathiTrust Digital Library

Consultation, training, and technical assistance provided by the IDRH

arbuthno@ku.edu
Corpus/Database Digital Archives Pedagogy

Overview

The Project on the History of Black Writing is a research unit in the Department of English within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. HBW has been in the forefront of research and inclusion efforts in higher education since its founding in 1983 at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. HBW is committed to literary recovery work in Black studies; innovative scholarship, book history and digital humanities; professional development and curriculum transformation; and public literacy programming. Part of HBW's work, the collaborative Black Book Interactive Project (BBIP) is a digital initiative that seeks to fill a prominent void in the digital landscape. When completed, the HBW Corpus will be the largest archive of African American fiction in existence with broad access for research and teaching.

 

News

Hellman, R. (2020, August 11). Teaching Zora Neale Hurston to the Black Lives Matter Generation. The University of Kansas. http://today.ku.edu/2020/08/10/teaching-zora-neale-hurston-blacklivesmatter-generation

Peace, C. (2021, September 22). Project on the History of Black Writing Lecture Series Will Further Explore Zora Neale Hurston’s Life, Legacy. KU Today. https://today.ku.edu/2021/09/22/project-history-black-writing-series-will-further-explore-zora-neale-hurstons-life-legacy