The 72nd Annual Charles Eaton Burch Lecture Featuring Award-Winning Fiction Writer and Critic Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

DR. CHARLES EATON BURCH was a faculty member at Howard University's Department of English for twenty-seven years. He served as department chair from 1933 until his untimely death in 1948. A scholar of 17th and 18th-century literature and expert on the author Daniel Defoe, Dr. Burch also introduced one of the earliest courses on Black Literature and Life into the curriculum. To honor his legacy, the Department established and endowed the annual Charles Eaton Burch Memorial Lecture in 1948.