College of Letters & Science
In her December 2024 Footsteps column, Dr. Ethelene Whitmire ruminates on 20th-century writer Nella Larsen, her semi-autobiographical character Helga Crane from the 1928 novel Quicksand, and time spent navigating Copenhagen. The New York Times’ Footsteps series traces landscapes that shaped major authors, and Whitmire had long imagined contributing to it after encountering Ellery Washington’s 2014 …
Dr. Ethelene Whitmire’s latest book, The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram, the true story of a queer, Black man living in Europe during 20th century, will be released from Penguin Random House on February 3, 2026. “Award-winning historian Ethelene Whitmire unearthed a trove of Reed’s letters when she met one of his descendants at a …
Dr. Ethelene Whitmire’s co-curated exhibition “Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century” will be on display at UW-Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art from tomorrow, August 10th until November 10th. The Chazen Museum of Art will be hosting Dr. Whitmire for a Co-Curator Conversation on Friday, September 10th at 10 a.m. to discuss the …