News from SUNY Oneonta
Kyle Roth of Stormville presents at annual literature conference
ONEONTA, NY (04/24/2018)– Kyle Roth of Stormville, NY, participated in the ninth annual undergraduate New Critics Literature Conference at SUNY Oneonta on Saturday, April 14.
Twenty eight students in total presented their scholarly work, and Roth, who is studying Early Chld/Childhood Ed (B-6) at SUNY Oneonta, presented “‘I’ve never had a thing for princesses’: Challenging Heteronormativity in King & King.”. The event culminated in a keynote address by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars of African American literary history, Professor Lawrence Jackson, Distinguished Professor of English and History at Johns Hopkins University.
Jackson is the author of “The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics (2010),” which won the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association award for non-fiction; the family memoir, “My Father’s Name, A Black Family after the Civil War (2012);” and two biographies, “Emergence of Genius,” about Ralph Ellison (2002), and his 2017 biography of Chester Himes. The latter has been nominated for the PEN Bogard Weld Prize and the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers Association.
