Best-Selling Author Roxane Gay to Speak at 2022 Douglass Spring Convocation
Roxane Gay, a New York Times bestselling author and cultural critic, will be the keynote speaker at the 2022 Spring Convocation at Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s Douglass Residential College.
“Her ground-breaking writing on feminism and social justice has inspired learners and influenced readers across the globe,” said Jacquelyn Litt, dean of Douglass Residential College. “I know that she will offer the Class of 2022 a remarkably special send-off as they close their undergraduate chapter at Douglass.”
This will be the 101st convocation ceremony for the college, which was established in 1918.
Gay’s published works include Bad Feminist, a collection of essays, as well as the novel An Untamed State and Difficult Women, a collection of short stories.
The author’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction and Virginia Quarterly Review.
Gay also is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and a writer for “Black Panther: World of Wakanda,” a Marvel comic-book series.
Gay, the Presidential Professor of Critical Thinking and Social Justice at Occidental College, publishes a newsletter, The Audacity, and is involved in television and film projects. She earned a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She attended graduate school at Michigan Technological University in 2008, where she earned a doctorate degree in rhetoric and technical communication in 2010.
The Douglass Spring Convocation will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Saturday, May 14, on Antilles Field at the Douglass campus. Some 645 Douglass students will be celebrated for earning their degrees from Rutgers and certificates of achievement from Douglass. A barbecue follows the convocation.
