hortense spillers
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
read
- The scholarly journey of Hortense Spillers — brandeis now, 2019
- Transformative Scholarship Beyond the Ivory Tower: A Conversation with Dr. Hortense J. Spillers — soka university of america, 2022
- Collection from renowned black feminist theorist generating excitement at Brown — brown university news, 2020
- Hortense Spillers — political theology network, 2022
- Hortense J. Spillers, honorary degree — yale university, 2024
watch
- A Conversation with Hortense Spillers — montgomery fellows, dartmouth, 2023
- Shades of Intimacy: What the Eighteenth Century Teaches Us — cornell university, 2016
- W.J. Alexander Lecture in English Literature: Now the Work of Criticism — university college, toronto, 2023
- CSRPC Annual Public Lecture with Hortense J. Spillers — university of chicago, 2022
- Left of Black with Hortense Spillers and Alexis Pauline Gumbs — john hope franklin center, duke
hear
- How might we take up Hortense Spillers's invitation to think gender and race in 2026? — iconoclast art history, clark art institute, 2026
- EP07: Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe — mothers & others, 2018
- Spillers, Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe — love and sex, 2021