Lit Lunch: Liz Rodrigues on Data, Modernism, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Wednesday, Sept. 18, noon to 1 p.m., Burling Library

Published:

September 13, 2019

This work-in-progress talk considers why and how data collection in general and Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s practice of it in particular can be located as a modernist aesthetic practice. In her investigative reporting on lynching (Southern Horrors, A Red Record, and Mob Rule in New Orleans) and her autobiography (Crusade for Justice), Wells-Barnett offers a critical data aesthetic that brings dynamics of race, class, and gender to the fore in ways that reshape the epistemology of data and our conception of modernist authorship.

Liz Rodrigues is humanities and digital scholarship librarian at Grinnell College. Prior to coming to Grinnell, she completed a master's of library and information science at the University of South Florida in 2008, a doctorate in English from the University of Michigan in 2015, and a year as a Council for Library & Information Resources postdoctoral fellow at Temple University.

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