04 La Marr Jurelle Bruce | Ms. Lauryn Hill Sings Truth to Power in the Key of Madness

Professor La Marr Jurelle Bruce (University of Maryland)

Ms. Lauryn Hill Sings Truth to Power in the Key of Madness

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This video presentation is part of the Self-Guided online conference #masshysteria. Politics, Affect, and Performance Strategies (October 2020), which is sponsored by Stanford University’s Department of Theater and Performance Studies, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and Stanford’s Taube Center for Jewish Studies. Funding also comes from the research project "The Hysteric as Conceptual Operator", sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): [J 4164-G24]. For more information please visit: https://ccsre.stanford.edu/events/mas... and www.performing-hysteria.com.

La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary humanities scholar, cultural and literary theorist, black/Black studies devotee, and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He studies Africana literature and performance, queer theory, psychoanalysis, disability studies, mad studies, radical love, and the art and aesthetics of quotidian black life. Winner of the Joe Weixlmann Award from African American Review, Dr. Bruce has also published in American Quarterly, The Black Scholar, GLQ, Social Text, and TDR. His first book, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (forthcoming from Duke University Press), is a study of black artists who mobilize madness in radical self-making, art-making, and world-making. His second project, The Afromantic, will generate a cultural history, critical theory, and existential expression of black joy and love amid antiblackness.