"It's Not My Story, but Someone Needs to Tell It" Apr. 12 (W) at 5pm in Yokum 203

[Daniel Lake]

 A challenge faced by many professors in the social sciences and humanities
is how to teach and do research on historically marginalized communities we
are not part of. Trying to teach a class about the experiences and
perspectives of a community we are not part of can be challenging on its
own, and when the community is one that has historically been subject to
severe discrimination it is that much harder. At the same time, these
stories need to be told, but even when there is a member of a
marginalized community
present (and that often is not the case), asking them to take on this role
by themselves would be to impose an unfair burden on them. This panel
reflects on the challenges and possibilities of this crucial, yet fraught,
kind of teaching and research.

Panelists:
*Michelle L. Bonati* is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education and the
Campus Lead for the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center at
SUNY Plattsburgh and an Honorary Associate Professor of Inclusive Education
at the University of Sydney. Her teaching and research focus on inclusive
education practices that support students with disabilities in K-12
education and higher education in the U.S., Indonesia, and Australia.

*Tracie Church Guzzio *is a Professor of English and Director of the Redcay
Honors Program. She teaches courses on African-American literature;
multiethnic American literature; and genocide & trauma literature. Her
research focus is on African-American culture and literature (especially
contemporary works) and its intersections with trauma rhetoric and gothic
studies.
She has written on African-American authors such as Toni Morrison, August
Wilson, Ralph Ellison, Ishmael Reed, Percival Everett, Gayl Jones, Charles
Johnson, and Colson Whitehead. She is the co-founder of the John Edgar
Wideman Society and is the author of *All Stories Are True: History, Myth,
and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman* (2011) . On campus she is the
co-organizer of the yearly "Black Poetry Day" celebration.

*Jean-Philippe Marcoux* is the Distinguished Fulbright Canada Research
Chair in Québec Studies at SUNY Plattsburgh, as well as a Professor of
American Literature at Université Laval in Québec City. His research
focuses on the cross-fertilizations between Black music, literature,
especially poetry, and social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He is the
author of *Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem*
 (Lexington Books, 2012) and the editor of *Some Other Blues: New
Perspectives on Amiri Baraka **(Ohio UP, 2021), and **Back Pages: New and
Selected Poems by A.L. Nielsen **(BlazeVox, 2021)*. He has produced books
chapters on David Henderson, Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka. He is
currently working on a literary history of the Umbra poets as well as on a
two-volume collection of critical and creative work on and by Umbra members
entitled *The Umbra Galaxy *(co-edited with David Grundy and Tonya Foster,
under contract at Wesleyan UP). He is the co-founder of the Amiri Baraka
Society.

*John McMahon* is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, teaching
courses in political thought and the politics of race and gender, including
African American Political Thought, Feminist Political Thought, and
Anti-Colonialism. His research interests include political theories of
neoliberalism and capitalism, Black political thought, and feminist
political thought; his recent publications include "Securing White
Democracy: Guns and the Politics of Whiteness" (forthcoming in *Contemporary
Political Theory*), "Sonia Sotomayor's Legal Phenomenology, Racial
Policing, and the Limits of Law" (2021 in *Polity*), "Magicians of the 21st
Century: Utopia, Work, and Domination in Silicon Valley" (2021 in *Theory &
Event*), and "Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness"
(2021 in *Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg*, edited by Jane Anna Gordon and
Drucilla Cornell).

This panel will be moderated by Institute Director *Daniel Lake.*

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*Daniel Lake*

(gender pronouns: he/him/his)

Assoc. Prof.  and Chair of Political Science

Director, Institute for Ethics in Public Life

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