Author Jeri Board will present a lecture titled “Historical Consciousness: Giving a Voice to Social and Political Activism in Modern American Fiction” at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 11 in Yeager Recital Hall. Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and the Office of Cultural and Special Programs, this event is free and open to the public.
Using her recently published novel “The Bed She Was Born In” as text, Board will discuss activism as narrative in modern fiction. Topics will include the multi-cultural roadbed that comprised the foundation of the Underground Railroad; the plight of formerly enslaved African-Americans following the Civil War; and the socio-economic circumstances that forced families apart during the Great Depression.
“The Bed She Was Born In” has received noteworthy reviews in such publications as Country Mountain Living, The Hendersonville Times, The Charlotte Observer, Bold Life Magazine, Greensboro News & Record and The Wilmington Star. It was recently selected as a feature in the September issue of Our State magazine.
Board is a former administrator at the University of North Carolina and a former professor of women’s studies, creative writing, and African-American studies at Duke University and St. Andrews Presbyterian College. She completed a doctorate in women’s leadership studies and American women writers at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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