Stories about "TherÌ Pickens"
Bates Faculty in the News: Therí Pickens’ debut poetry collection gains media attention and sparks a busy spring, on and off campus
Friday, May 9, 2025 9:09 am
Dana Professor of English and Africana Therí Pickens' debut poetry collection earns praise in publications like Down East and The Adroit Journal as she shares her work through readings, panels, and an recent campus celebration in Commons.
Bates announces five 2020–21 faculty promotions, including tenure awards
Friday, October 30, 2020 9:26 am
Meet these five newly promoted faculty members, and learn a bit about what being a Bates professor means to them.
Bates in the News: Sept. 10, 2020
Thursday, September 10, 2020 12:32 pm
Wired and The Guardian turn to Bates people for insights into troubling issues, plus Jason Castro explains how a mouse can smell without using its nose.
Q&A: We can learn a lot by reading ‘mad Black’ texts, says Therí Pickens
Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:06 am
In a new book, Pickens, an associate professor of English, explains how ideas about race and disability show up in literature and film, from Octavia Butler to "Downton Abbey."
Pickens book explores embodied experience in African American, Arab American writing
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 2:09 pm
Do the people you touch make you the person you are? If you are breathing, can your oppressors claim that you do not exist? Questions like these drive Therí Pickens' new book.
Symposium: How does knowledge about human difference play out at work?
Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:16 pm
English professor Theri Pickens has organized a March 2 symposium that will show students how knowledge about identity and difference can be put into practice in the workaday world.