Tue., Dec. 12, 2023, 12 – 1 p.m.

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is an award-winning essayist and novelist and the Dorothy G. Griffin College Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the founder of Literatures of Annihilation, Exile, and Resistance, a reading and lecture series at the crossroads of the arts and human rights. Her work centers migration, geopolitics, and exile.

In this lecture, Van der Vliet Oloomi will talk about the intersections of migration, narrative, and violence based on her seminal craft essay on the works of Yiyun Li, James Baldwin, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

She is the author of “Savage Tongues” and “Call Me Zebra,” which won the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award. She received a 2015 Whiting Award and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 award for her debut novel, “Fra Keeler.” Her work appeared in the Believer, Granta, the New York Times, the Sewanee Review, and the Yale Review.

Gazette Classification: Diversity and Inclusion, Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Speaker(s): Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Award-winning essayist and novelist and the Dorothy G. Griffin College Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame
Cost: Free
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Contact Info: events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
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