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Reading the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man in the 21st Century

2,881 views · Published 5 October 2017 · 1:00:06 · Indexed 14 November 2026

Channel: Emory University · 2017 · Education

Noelle Morrissette is Associate Professor and Class of 1952 Distinguished Scholar of English at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the author of "James Weldon Johnson’s Modern Soundscapes" (Iowa, 2013) and editor of "New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" (Georgia, 2017). She received her doctorate in African American Studies and English Literature from Yale University, working intensively in the as-yet uncatalogued manuscripts of James Weldon Johnson. Since then, she has been a two-time visiting fellow to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where the Grace Nail and James Weldon Johnson Papers reside. Morrissette’s scholarly work combines diverse archival sources, using historicist methods to provide fresh readings of literary texts such as Johnson’s. Her JWJI Race & Difference Colloquium talk, “Reading The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man in the 21st Century,” discusses the reception of Johnson’s work contemporaneous to its anonymous publication in 1912, emphasizing unfinished chapters of Johnson’s novel in our age and reading culture (October 2, 2017).

The James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference supports research, teaching, and public dialogue that examine race and intersecting dimensions of human difference including but not limited to class, gender, religion, and sexuality.

http://jamesweldonjohnson.emory.edu

Reading the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man in the 21st Century

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