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2026 Mergen-Palmer Distinguished Lecture, Part I: Prof. Justin Mann

Mon, Nov 2 · 5:00 PM Corcoran Hall · Foggy Bottom

Room 101A. Join the GW Department of American Studies for part one of our 2026-27 Mergen-Palmer Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Prof. Justin Mann, associate professor of English at Northwestern University, and a GW American Studies PhD alum. “Getting Lost in the Dark” analyzes two texts, Victor La Valle and Dietrich Smith’s graphic novel Destroyer and the Russo brothers' Captain America: The Winter Soldier, to show how Black speculative fictions reimagine the possibilities, limits, and potential ends of the American security state.

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