Undergrads Get Tips From the Experts at College Language Association Convention - Higher Education: NEW ORLEANS — Kyr Rashad Mack and Jeremiah Carter fell in love with Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man a few years ago. It was something about the language and the sophistication of the characters in Ellison’s 1952 epic novel that arrested their attention from the moment they first encountered the text.
These two English majors from Hampton University were among a handful of undergraduates who got the chance to show off their academic prowess at the annual convention of the College Language Association — the largest gathering of literary and language scholars whose work focuses on African, Caribbean and African American themes.
Mack and Carter who wrote their senior capstone thesis paper on Invisible Man, participated in a panel discussion at CLA’s convention in New Orleans last week and was treated to rare feedback from some of the nation’s most visible and established literary scholars.