Christel N. Temple - Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh

About this episode

The episode features a conversation with Christel Temple about the methods and significance of Black Studies.

This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods. Today’s conversation is with Christel Temple, who teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on Africana cultural memory studies, Pan-Africanism, the intersection of History and Literature, comparative Black literature, and Afroeuropean Studies . Along with numerous scholarly articles, including —"A Value Added Module for Introduction to Black Studies: Speaking in the Disciplines and Africana Market Value," in Afrocentric Innovations in Higher Education , she is the author of Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005), Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise (2017), Black Cultural Mythology (2020), and co-editor with James L. Conyers, Jr. of Muhammad Ali in…

People in this episode

Host: John Drabinski

Guest: Christel Temple

Topics covered

• Black Studies
• Africana cultural memory studies
• Pan-Africanism
• History and Literature
• comparative Black literature
• Afroeuropean Studies

Keywords

• Black Studies
• Africana Studies
• cultural memory
• Pan-Africanism
• literature
• education
• scholarship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Books & works: Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism, Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise, Black Cultural Mythology, Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory, A Value Added Module for Introduction to Black Studies: Speaking in the Disciplines and Africana Market Value

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