Humanities in the Village Ft. Jeanne-Marie Jackson and Emmanuel Awine

Presenting the March edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible.

We're thrilled to celebrate Jeanne-Marie Jackson, professor of English at Johns Hopkins University, for the launch of her new book The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa, the first book devoted to the career of anglophone West Africa’s most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectual. In this revisionist account, Jeanne-Marie Jackson positions Casely Hayford's career as an intriguing case study of anticolonial literature and politics. She maps the contours of Casely Hayford’s thought through sustained attention to his written work within its Gold Coast and British imperial contexts, demonstrating the far-reaching conceptual and aesthetic resources of his elite legal background.

Emmanuel Awine, PhD student in English at Johns Hopkins University, and Graduate Assistant at the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, will join Jackson in conversation.

After the conversation, we'll extend the evening with a refreshment-filled party until 9pm.

Whether it's your first time at the series or you've been attending for years, we hope you'll join us to see this exciting new book into the world!

Order THE LETTER OF THE LAW here!

Jeanne-Marie Jackson is professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing (Princeton) and South African Literature’s Russian Soul: Narrative Forms of Global Isolation. She is the coeditor of a critical edition of J. E. Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound and Intellectual Traditions of African Literature, 1960–2015.

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