Spotlight! Guest Instructor Series: Shenita Denson
Retrospective Storytelling, Meaning-Making, and Generativity
Location
Online
Date & Time
April 22, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
This is a repost of an event hosted by the AoK Library. Original post can be found here.
Albin O. Kuhn Library's guest lecture series will be hosting a virtual talk by current UMBC graduate student Shenita Denson! If you are interested in attending, please see the description down below! The link for the event can be found at the original post on the AoK's original post.
Shenita Denson’s research is centered on the stories we hear and tell – and those we wish we heard or told – around intimate topics and how they impact our identities, relationships, and our health/well-being. For her dissertation, Denson is focusing on the intergenerational stories in the Black community around love and how the meanings (or omission) of these stories have impacted individuals throughout the life course. Utilizing concepts of time, space, place and generativity (the passing down of wisdom), her research challenges us to examine how the communities in which we belong, can be impacted through the use of telling stories, and the impacts of silencing them.
