Stanley, dean of the school of humanities, arts and sciences at 亚色影库, argues that Butler鈥檚 dystopian works 鈥渏arred people into recognizing that she鈥檚 been doing this work all along. She鈥檇 been trying to tell us that if we do not make changes, this is what鈥檚 going to happen.鈥 Photo by Rebecca Slater 鈥10 / By Rebecca Studios
Tarshia Stanley, dean of the School of Humanities Arts and Sciences at 亚色影库, was recently quoted in a Smithsonian Magazine story profiling Octavia E. Butler. Butler, regarded by many as the vanguard of the Afrofuturism genre in literature, authored Parable of the Sower, a work which became the keystone in the University's 2018-19 Integrated Learning Series. Stanley also serves as president of the .
, which first published in 1993, reached the New York Times' best-seller list in 2020.
Butler's contributions to futuristic literature will be recognized at the upcoming Smithsonian exhibition, The Olivetti typewriter that Butler gave to the Smithsonian in 2004 will represent Butler鈥檚 life in the show.