The Center for the Advancement of the Humanities invites you to a virtual talk with Tayari Jones, the celebrated novelist and essayist best known for her New York Times best-selling novel An American Marriage. In addition to writing, Ms. Jones is a Charles Howard Chandler Professor at Emory University and A.D. White Professor At Large at Cornell University. Ms. Jones will discuss her books, as well as her life and career.

Tayari Jones, a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, has also earned fellowships from United States Artists, Guggenheim, NEA, Radcliffe Institute, and the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, Time , Tin House, and The Believer, among other places, and her two stories for Audible were part of the first slate of short fiction Audible Originals.

Jones is a member of Black Artists for Freedom. She is a graduate of Spelman College, the University of Iowa, and Arizona State University, and is currently a Charles Howard Chandler Professor at Emory University and A.D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University.

The Ralph H. Metcalfe Chair is a non-residential visiting scholar program of Marquette's Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion.

2021 Ralph H. Metcalfe Chair Lecture: Tayari Jones