Hurston on the Horizon: Past, Present and Future
A National Endowment for the Humanities Virtual Summer Institute on the works of Zora Neale Hurston to take place July 11-30, 2021.
About the Institute
Learn more about the fundamental questions posed by contemporary Hurston scholarship and how those questions inform the Institute.
Institute Faculty
Get to know the team of faculty who will lead the Institute’s multidisciplinary exploration of Hurston’s life and work.
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January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo and Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.
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MELUS 2022 – 36th Annual Conference in New Orleans
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Virtual institute connects scholars to explore, celebrate work of Zora Neale Hurston
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