Nellie Downie shares her personal journey discovering how audiobooks transformed her relationship with Romantic literature and became a powerful accessibility tool in her own classroom. Learn practical strategies for normalizing audiobook use and improving student engagement with complex texts.

K-SAA is continuing their virtual events series with two talks by Sarah Marsh (Seton Hill University) and Imani Tucker (Yale University). During the event, titled Marsh and Tucker will examine the role of the more- or less-than human in Romantic-era writing, whether the vampire, the figure of Prometheus, or the cosmos of Benjamin Banneker.

A wonderful assignment by Daniel Block, Ph.D., English Department Chair, King School

Goals:

• To bring the poetry of British Romantic literature into conversation with current events;

• To engage with the theme of “Performing Politics: Romantic Futures,” which is the focus of the 2024 Curran Symposium at New York University;

• To collaborate with the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the Byron Society of America on their public art initiatives

Global Equiano opens fresh conversations about enslaved and free Black people as they navigated spaces dominated by violent, colonial forces, and considers the Black Atlantic futures they imagined.