Vincent Carretta Lecture

Vincent Carretta, esteemed scholar of the black Atlantic, will be giving a talk at the Niles Gallery on Tuesday, November 10th, at 4:30 p.m. The title of his lecture is "The Challenge of Writing a Biography of the Autobiographer Olaudah Equiano."

Vincent Carretta, Professor of English at the University of Maryland, specializes in eighteenth-century transatlantic historical and literary studies. Author of more than 100 articles and reviews, Carretta has also written and edited eleven books, most recently Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (2005) and The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque The First African Anglican Missionary, forthcoming in 2010. Carretta’s current project is a biography of Phillis Wheatley. He has recently held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the John Carter Brown Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the University of London, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University, and the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton.