IAAS Celebrates Dr. Ed Pavlic, Distinguished Research Professor

In the midst of our current global pandemic, the Institute for African American Studies is proud to celebrate faculty member Ed Pavlic on the paperback release of his latest novel, Another Kind of Madness, a tale of human connection tuned to the clash between soul music’s vision of our essential responsibility to each other and a world that breaks us down and tears us apart. A Distinguished Research Professor, Pavlic also writes poetry, essays, dramatic pieces, and non-fiction. His 2020 collection of poetry, Let It Be Broke, explores cross-racial dynamics in American life and recently received an excellent review in Publishers Weekly.  Finally, when in-person gathering resumes in the future, we look forward to his continued efforts as Project Director of the DJ Summits in the Global South series, a collaboration which brings pairs of practicing DJ composers to Athens to talk with each other about their careers, communities, approaches, networks, and the motivations behind their work, funded as part of the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant within the Global Studies of the American South research category.

Students interested in taking courses with Dr. Pavlic should consider AFAM 2000, Introduction to African American Studies, online during summer 2020 or AFAM 8720, a Graduate African American Literature Seminar Course focusing on the writings of James Baldwin, during fall 2020.