Montgomery Fellows Program to Feature Hortense Spillers

The Montgomery Fellows Program this fall is welcoming a noted cultural and literary critic whose academic work over the past four decades broke new ground in amplifying the lives and voices of Black women.

The Montgomery Fellow in residence at Montgomery House starting this month is Hortense Spillers, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor Emerita from Vanderbilt, who will be affiliated with the Department of English and Creative Writing.

The program will also host