#  Dagmawi Woubshet 

 

 



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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.*



 

 

 



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