{"id":20956,"date":"2021-05-11T10:58:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=20956"},"modified":"2021-05-11T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:58:54","slug":"esu-professor-to-participate-in-drexel-writing-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-professor-to-participate-in-drexel-writing-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU Professor to Participate in Drexel Writing Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artress\u00a0Bethany White, Ph.D., associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University, will participate as a visiting author at the Drexel Writing Festival scheduled for May 17-21.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drexel.edu\/coas\/news-events\/news\/2021\/May\/visiting-writers-highlight-2021-drexel-writing-festival\/\">According to the website<\/a>\u00a0this year\u2019s festival theme is \u201cDeception,\u201d and topics for the festival range from magic to food and from criminals to self-identity.<\/p>\n<p>A poet, essayist and literary critic, Dr. White will read from\u00a0her book,\u00a0<em>Survivor\u2019s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity<\/em>, which looks at what it means to be Black in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past decade, I have faced the challenge of raising a transracial family in the South, reckoned with being descended from one of the largest slaveholding families in America, and faced the history of a nineteenth-century ancestor being lynched by the KKK,\u201d said White. \u201cAs I worked to assess these realities, I marveled at how my experiences were echoed in the trauma of a nation under siege from domestic terrorism, gun violence and racism. In the spirit of healing, I share\u00a0<em>Survivor\u2019s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity<\/em>\u00a0with a public searching for answers to America\u2019s complex racial dilemma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I hope for students to take away] that social justice literacy and allyship are essential skills and necessary considerations as they continue their education and progress in their professional lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White\u2019s reading and discussion will be Wednesday, May 19 at 2 p.m. This reading, as well as all the events of the festival, are free and open to the public. More information about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drexel.edu\/coas\/academics\/departments-centers\/english-philosophy\/events\/drexel-writing-festival\/\">Drexel Writing Festival<\/a>\u00a0and access to Dr. White\u2019s reading can be found on Drexel University\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artress\u00a0Bethany White, Ph.D., associate professor of English at ESU, will participate as a visiting author at the Drexel Writing Festival scheduled for May 17-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":20959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20960,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956\/revisions\/20960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}