Aime Ellis

Aime Ellis is an assistant professor of African American Literature at Michigan State University and the author of the forthcoming study If We Must Die: From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls. His specialties include black male autobiography; race, gender and African Diaspora studies; and contemporary black popular culture and social history, among other subjects.

Event
Richard Wright’s 100th Birthday
When: Wed, Sep 24, 11am – 12pm
Where: Research I, Room 163, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (map)
Description: Wright, author of Black Boy, Native Son and other classics of African-American literature, was born on a plantation not far from the Mississippi. A panel of scholars, including Aime Ellis, James Miller, and Maryemma Graham, marks the 100th anniversary of his birth by assessing his legacy as the country’s greatest African American writer