The English department's Scholar Tea series presents a discussion with the author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, in which Sharpe examines representations of black life that constitute what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake" — the trail behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness — Sharpe illustrates how black lives are swept up by the afterlives of slavery. FMI 207-753-6963 or lwardwel@bates.edu.