Salvage the Song

Presented by Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Associate Professor of Classics at Brown University

Inheritance matters in Jesmyn Ward's third novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing. Explaining how Sing, Unburied, Sing's surprisingly elliptical ending reflects the theme of inheritance, Sasha-Mae Eccleston will situate the novel's engagement with the figure of Medea within both archaic Greek and contemporary American political economies of speech.

Sasha-Mae Eccleston is currently Associate Professor of Classics at Brown University where she directs the Critical Classical Studies Postdoctoral/Post-MFA Fellowship Program and maintains affiliations with the Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Africana Studies, and the Center for Environmental Humanities at the Cogut Institute.