Left of Black | Caryl Phillips on Writing Oneself Into Visibility

Celebrated novelist and playwright Caryl Phillips conversed about the intersection of creative writing and humanistic inquiry as he discussed his work as professor of English at Yale University with former Duke Ph.D. candidate Sasha Panaram. Sasha graduated from Duke in the spring of 2020.
Photograph of Caryl Phillips © Marianna Cook 2014.
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Additional footage from the Department of English at Duke University, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, and from the University of Central Lancashire.