African Literature and the Idea of the University

Event details Date: Friday, October 30, 2026 Time: 3:30 PM Location: Grinter Hall, 404 Type: Open to the Public Tags: Open to the Public About this event Anne Gulick's research explores where, how, and why the institution of the university appears in Anglophone African literary texts. African literature, she argues, has a crucial contribution to make to current global conversations about the meaning of the university's past, present, and future. When African literature "does" Critical University Studies, it yields a capacious, unwieldy, and especially potent set of resources for understanding what it means to resist, abolish, decolonize, or simply survive this institution in our postcolonial, neoliberal present. Official event details: https://calendar.ufl.edu/live/events/56523-african-literature-and-the-idea-of-the-university