*REPOST* Spotlight! Guest Instructor Series: Shenita Denson
Retrospective Storytelling, Meaning-Making, and Generativity
Friday, April 22, 2022 · 12 - 1 PM
Original event post from the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery can be found here.
Retrospective Storytelling, Meaning-Making, and
Generativity (the passing down of wisdom): Black Intergenerational
Stories About Love
Shenita
Denson’s research is centered on the stories we hear and tell – and
those we wish we heard or told – around intimate topics and how they
impact our identities, relationships, and our health/well-being. For her
dissertation, Denson is focusing on the intergenerational stories in
the Black community around love and how the meanings (or omission) of
these stories have impacted individuals throughout the life course.
Utilizing concepts of time, space, place and generativity (the passing
down of wisdom), her research challenges us to examine how the
communities in which we belong, can be impacted through the use of
telling stories, and the impacts of silencing them.