Finding Zora Neale Hurston: Then and Now with Lucy Anne Hurston

This course is part of the Presidents' College fall 2022 programing.

Ground-breaking 20th century author Zora Neale Hurston is best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic read in high schools, colleges, and book clubs across the country. Yet there are many other “Zora”s to find. We invite you to meet another “Zora”—ethnographer and social commentator – with Lucy Anne Hurston, Hurston’s niece, as your guide. A sociologist herself, Lucy Anne Hurston has found that her own research adventures are deeply connected to questions her aunt raised decades ago. As such, she is ideally positioned to spark discussion about a selection of Zora Neale Hurston’s nonfiction writings and to consider with us how and why her aunt’s writings continue to speak to our own fraught cultural and political moment.

Wednesdays: Oct. 12 and 19 | 10:30 a.m.–noon | $40 | KF Room