Rotary Arts Conversations
Tap into the minds of the creative talent in our community!
Martha Hodes is most recently the author of My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering, in which she explores her recollections of being held hostage on an airplane in 1970. The book, published in 2023, was named an editor’s choice by The New York Times Book Review and was excerpted in The New Yorker.
She is also the author of three previous books: Mourning Lincoln; The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century; and White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South.
Hodes’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. She is a professor of history at New York University and served as director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library from 2021 to 2023.
Hodes has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Whiting Foundation, among others. At NYU, she offers courses on race, the Civil War, and nineteenth century U.S. history, as well as courses devoted to the art and craft of history writing.
Hodes will be in conversation with Nathalie Andersen, Swarthmore College professor emerita of English literature.
A wine-and-cheese reception with the author to follow.