Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Broadway playwright, is the guest speaker at 2024 Duffy Lecture

SOUTH BEND — The University of Notre Dame’s English department presents its 2024 Duffy Lecture with featured guest Branden Jacobs-Jenkins at 5 p.m. April 24 in the Eck Visitors Center.

Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based playwright and producer and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Recent theater credits include “Appropriate,” which is currently running on Broadway, “The Comeuppance,” “Girls,” “Everybody,” “War,” “Gloria,” “An Octoroon” and “Neighbors.”

He was showrunner, executive producer and writer for Hulu/FX’s drama series “Kindred,” based on the novel by Octavia E. Butler.

Jacobs-Jenkins currently teaches at Yale University and serves as Vice President of the Dramatists Guild council and on the boards of Soho Rep, Park Avenue Armory, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Dramatists Guild Foundation.

The lecture will be in the form of a conversation with Chanté Mouton Kinyon, an assistant professor of English at Notre Dame whose primary research explores transnational Black American literature and culture, with a particular interest in the way in which Black American culture and literature intersects with Irish culture and literature.

A Q&A will follow.

Admission is free.

For more information, visit al.nd.edu/events.

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