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Discuss “Lecturers celebrate, discuss Black History Month”

Kimberly C. Ellis will give a lecture titled “August Wilson, Bard of the Hill” tomorrow at 4:30 pm in Connan Room.

Specializing in such areas as African-American studies, the early civil rights movement, black theater, and the black west, Ellis is becoming an August Wilson scholar. Having grown up in the famous Hill

District in which most of Wilson’s plays are set, Ellis taught the first seminar course on Wilson at the University of Pittsburgh.

Ellis spoke as a panelist at the August Wilson Symposium at Howard University, the August Wilson Festival at Penn State University, and was the featured speaker at the National Council of Teachers of English Conference.

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