in rhetoric and technical communication from Michigan Technological University, and a master’s degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Gay is an associate professor of English at Purdue University, teaching creative writing. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times founding editor of PANK, a literary magazine and founding essays editor at The Rumpus, an online literary magazine. Gay became the first black woman to write for Marvel Comics with the comic book “Black Panther: World of Wakanda.” She also wrote the novel “An Untamed State” and the short story collections “Difficult Women” and “Ayiti.” “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,” in which Gay reflects on her struggles with weight, trauma and identity, was released last year. “Bad Feminist,” a collection of essays, became a New York Times bestseller in 2014 and is considered a quintessential exploration of modern feminism.
This lecture is free and open to the public. Thursday, April 5, in the Memorial Union Great Hall.
