Caryl Phillips, Blackburn Writer-in-Residency Events, 2/24 & 2/26

We are excited to have Caryl Phillips joining us for the Spring 2020 residency with Duke’s English Department. Caryl Phillips is a novelist, playwright, and essayist, and among his many novels are The Final Passage (1985), Crossing the River (1993), A Distant Shore (2003) The Lost Child (2015), and A View of Empire at Sunset (2018). He is the winner of multiple awards, and is professor of English at Yale University.

We hope you can join us for the following events:

*Monday, February 24, 6-8 pm (Allen 314, West Campus): Caryl Phillips lecture: “In the Ghetto: One Night in Venice”. For off-campus visitors who want to request visitor parking for the Allen Parking lot, please fill out this surveyno later than 12PM on Friday 2/21. Otherwise, visitor parking on west campus can be found here.

*Wednesday, February 26, 6-8 pm (Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4 (114 S Buchanan Blvd): Joint reading with Caryl Phillips and Akhil Sharma. Visitor parking available on-site.