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Department of African American Studies

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Ebony Flowers, Visiting Scholar

Ebony Flowers, an award-winning graphic novelist and educator, will be a visiting scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences from October 21-25. Please join us to learn more about her exploration of African American life and culture through autobiographical comics. She will also share her expertise with comics-making across disciplines in research and education.

The Art of Remembering in Creative Practice

October 21, 6:30 p.m. | Lumpkin Auditorium, Close-Hipp

This lecture is open to the public. It will include time for questions from the audience. A book signing will follow.

Flowers will talk about her journey into making comics and her creative practice. She also will read excerpts from her upcoming book, Baltimore Brownfield

Making Comics for Research

October 25, 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Gambrell 429

Participants will draw, write, and make comics to access a more picture-based approach to creating literature reviews. No drawing experience is necessary, and lunch will be provided. Faculty and graduate students from any discipline are welcome.  Register here.


In addition to these appearances, Flowers will meet with faculty and students engaged in studio art, comic studies, creative writing and other related topics.

Flowers' visit at the University of South Carolina is sponsored by the McCausland Visiting Scholars Program.

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About Ebony Flowers

Ebony Flowers is a cartoonist, author, and educator. She holds a BA in Biological Anthropology from the University of Maryland-College Park and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in the New YorkerNew York Times, and the Paris Review. She is the creator of the graphic novel, Hot Comb, which received the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel, the Believer Award for Fiction, the Eisner Award for Best Short Story, and a NAACP Image Award nomination in 2020. Ebony was a Mary I. Bunting Fellow for Fiction at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2022-2023. Her next graphic novel, Baltimore Brownfield, will be released in 2025 by Drawn and Quarterly.


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