"This moment of opening the book and not finding your mark there, I feel speaks volumes,” says Vernon, “That’s the Black Prairie experience in a nutshell. You open a book, you know you’re there, but you don’t see yourself represented.”
Prof. Karina Vernon is featured in the current issue of the University of Toronto Magazine: https://magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ideas/culture-society/a-lost-literature-black-canadian-prairie-writing. Read to learn more about about her research and her forthcoming book, The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology.
Would you like to learn more about Prof. Vernon's role in the department, or arrange a meeting to talk with her? Check her faculty profile for research and teaching interests as well as her office hours availability.
Posted: 30.6.2019