Kinohi Nishikawa

@kinohi.bsky.social

English & African American Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton.

Born in Depression-era Oklahoma to itinerant farmers, dropped out of high school to become a telegraph operator, and read Melville while he was bedridden from tuberculosis: higher education not as entitlement but as equipment for living. RIP Hershel Parker. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/b...

Hershel Parker, Melville Scholar of Ahab-Like Obsessiveness, Dies at 90

The author of an exhaustive two-volume biography, he was “fanatical about his approach to scholarship and infatuated with Melville,” a colleague said.

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Terrific lecture-performance at @princeton.edu Special Collections: WHEN PAGES BREATHE: PUBLIC DOMAIN INSIGHT, IN MIND, featuring readings by Chesney Snow and original art by A.K. Lovelace, inspired by Countee Cullen, Wallace Thurman, and others. Curated by Dr. Jennifer Garcon.

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Tomorrow and Saturday, May 1-2: Black Queer and Trans Studies, the 2026 graduate conference hosted by Princeton's Department of African American Studies. A terrific lineup of speakers advancing the field in brave and innovative ways aas.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

2026 Black Queer & Trans Studies Graduate Conference

The conference will be a space for inter- and cross-disciplinary dialogue amongst graduate and early-career scholars of Black queer/trans life and politics, capaciously defined.

aas.princeton.edu

Curator Es-pranza Humphrey on ACT BLACK at Poster House: because so many films from the era are lost, "advertising posters often provide the only remaining evidence of the most important productions featuring Black performers between the 1870s and the 1940s" posterhouse.org/exhibition/a...

Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen | Poster House

Starting in the 1880s, Black performers and those invested in telling stories centering Black people attempted to counter the dehumanizing and harmful stereotypes used to portray Black characters.

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C. Luke Soucy ‘19, award-winning scholar and translator of Ovid’s METAMORPHOSES, closes out a fantastic year of @princeton.edu’s Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows. Graduating seniors heard him speak about the winding path that led him from teenage love sonnets to classical epic poetry.

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