Teaching transnational Morrison: curation and comparative American studies

This article is the edited text of a talk given in May 2021 for AHRC-funded Black Female Intellectuals network. It argues that through comparative, transnational work American Studies scholars can widen definition who considered Intellectual first terms what we understand to be public intellectual and also recognise as Black. I explore act curation an intellectualism by looking closely at exhibitions curated African writer Toni Morrison Aboriginal Australian artist Fiona Foley. then discuss Foley’s ‘Blak’ argue such, her should engaged with taught within transnational, comparative classrooms.