Squint Speaks at Thomas Howerton Professorship lecture series

Dr. Kirstin Squint spoke alongside Dr. Ryan Emanual, a hydrologist from Duke University, at the University of North Carolina – Asheville, on the topic of “Southern Indigenous Waters,” the inaugural event in the Thomas Howerton Professorship lecture series, “Rising Waters: Writing Place and Environment.” Dr. Squint’s lecture was entitled “Swamp Souths, Hurricanes, and Water: the Indigenous Gulf South and Beyond” and Dr. Emanuel discussed his recent book, On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice. Their respective lectures were followed by a discussion and Q&A session with the audience. Dr. Squint also visited an Introduction to Literature class taught by the Thomas Howerton Professor, Dr. Erica Abrams Locklear, to discuss swamp and water-related texts in U.S. Southern and Native American literatures.

You can learn more about the event and the speaker series in this article from Mountain Express magazine.