Lit Lab

 

Featured

Love Song for Latasha

Dear Iola, Love South Film Festival

Dear Iola, Love South LA – a digital film festival created within a year (2020) of historic upheaval, based on a study of  Iola Leroy, a novel by one of  France E.W. Harper, one of the foremost Black woman authors, poets and activists of the 19c. Taking experimental documentaries (Sophia Nahli Allison, A Love Song For Latasha; Wexler AC’s Cinetracts 2020) as inspiration, students translated Harper’s 19c media formations (poetry, oration, novel) into films about racial uplift and Black love.

WWW.LOVESOUTHLA.ORG

Flyer design by Emmely Caceres. Read more about our journey, collaborators and experiences creating with the novel.

 

Dear Iola, Love South L.A.

Guest Speakers

Dear Iola, Love South LA  Guest Speakers Series featured five scholars leading South LA teens through topics related to students’ study of Iola Leroy.  Open to visitors of our communities, The Dickens Project, UCLA, USC, NAI, Foshay, and affiliated organizations and individuals, the series presented a rigorous and inspiring opportunity to study the novel alongside its historical context and contemporary connections.

 

This series is a part of Dear Iola, Love South L.A., a LitLabs production in collaboration with the Dickens Project, UCLA English Department, UHI & EPIC.

 

Blog

Latest News

South LA Reads Iola Leroy

South LA Reads Iola Leroy

South LA Reads Iola Leroy Frances E. W. Harper’s novel in one weekend beginning Saturday, October 17! It’s a page-turning convention—South LA teens welcome this work by one of the most prominent African American women writers of the nineteenth century.  Meet...

LA Copperfield: A South LA Bildungsroman

LA Copperfield: A South LA Bildungsroman

LA COPPERFIELD COMES TO FOSHAY THEATER JANUARY  2020 COMING (OF AGE) LA COPPERFIELD FOSHAY THEATER 1/31 & 2/1  Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.   LA...

About LitLabs

LitLabs are a public humanities project hub fusing visual performing arts and site-specific research with the study of literary texts,  in order to document, animate and uplift the life-worlds of communities who interpret them. LitLabs blends traditional literary studies with the emerging field of urban humanities, an interdisciplinary approach to spatial research blending methods from architecture, urban studies and the humanities. LitLabs’ first projects are the subject of the upcoming book project, Dear Charles Dickens, Love South LA, about the ways the project centered the history and daily life of South LA teens through leading them in creative engagements with the 19c long-form novel.