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# hortense spillers
- URL: https://atelier.qxavier.com/living-inspirations/inspiration-hortense-spillers/
- Published: 2026-10-06T11:59:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T11:59:00.000Z
- Description: professor emerita of english • vanderbilt university
- Author: quincéy xavier
- Tags: living inspirations, #Import 2026-10-16 06:39

*professor emerita of english • vanderbilt university*

a literary critic whose teaching began in 1974, and whose essays, gathered in *black, white, and in color*, keep reshaping how black culture is read. she is professor emerita of english at vanderbilt university.

bio from [vanderbilt university, department of english](https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bio/hortense-spillers/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com)

### read

- [The scholarly journey of Hortense Spillers](https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2019/february/hortense-spillers-qa.html?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — brandeis now, 2019
- [Transformative Scholarship Beyond the Ivory Tower: A Conversation with Dr. Hortense J. Spillers](https://www.soka.edu/news-events/news/transformative-scholarship-beyond-ivory-tower-conversation-dr-hortense-j-spillers?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — soka university of america, 2022
- [Collection from renowned black feminist theorist generating excitement at Brown](https://www.brown.edu/news/2020-02-21/spillers?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — brown university news, 2020
- [Hortense Spillers](https://politicaltheology.com/hortense-spillers/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — political theology network, 2022
- [Hortense J. Spillers, honorary degree](https://yale2024.yale.edu/honorary-degrees/hortense-j-spillers?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — yale university, 2024

### watch

- [A Conversation with Hortense Spillers](https://montgomery.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/10/video-conversation-hortense-spillers?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — montgomery fellows, dartmouth, 2023
- [Shades of Intimacy: What the Eighteenth Century Teaches Us](https://www.cornell.edu/video/hortense-spillers-shades-of-intimacy-eighteenth-century?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — cornell university, 2016
- [W.J. Alexander Lecture in English Literature: Now the Work of Criticism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef7zALR4qME&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — university college, toronto, 2023
- [CSRPC Annual Public Lecture with Hortense J. Spillers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE81OsiePq0&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — university of chicago, 2022
- [Left of Black with Hortense Spillers and Alexis Pauline Gumbs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui-EZQ1BTfE&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — john hope franklin center, duke

### hear

- [How might we take up Hortense Spillers's invitation to think gender and race in 2026?](https://www.librarystack.org/how-might-we-take-up-hortense-spillerss-invitation-to-think-gender-and-race-in-2026/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — iconoclast art history, clark art institute, 2026
- [EP07: Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe](https://mothersandotherspodcast.com/2018/06/24/ep07-mamas-baby-papas-maybe/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — mothers & others, 2018
- [Spillers, Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe](https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/spillers-mamas-baby-papas-maybe/id1551932650?i=1000536422555&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — love and sex, 2021