Dagmawi Woubshet

Dagmawi Woubshet is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Associate Term Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. A scholar of literature and visual culture, he works at the intersections of Africana and LGBTQIA+ studies. He is the author of The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS; and co-editor of Ethiopia: Modern Nation, Ancient Roots and Ethiopia: Literature, Art, Culture. His essays have appeared in Callaloo, Transition, NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and The Atlantic. He is currently completing two books, Noways Tired: James Baldwin and the Art of Late Style, and a book of personal essays, New Flower: Lyric Essays. Woubshet is the recipient of fellowships from Civitella Ranieri (Italy), the Africa Institute in Sharjah (UAE), and the Modern Art Museum in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), where he curated Julie Mehretu: The Addis Show.