Wandering through literature-- the ends of reading: Courtney Baker at TEDxConnecticutCollege 

Courtney Baker teaches courses in visual culture, critical theory, film and African-American literature.She obtained her Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University and her Bachelor of Arts in Women's Studies from Harvard University. Her book, "Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African-American Suffering and Death," is forthcoming from the New Black Studies series at University of Illinois Press. Her other research projects involve race and documentary film, the novels of Toni Morrison, and W. E. B. DuBois's application of German Romantic aesthetic philosophy to African-American life and letters.
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