**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.**  

Audiences worldwide recognize Sherlock Holmes as the archetypal founding father of all great (white) fictional detectives. What they don’t know is that, almost from his very inception, there has been an important yet mostly unknown counter tradition of Black American Sherlock Holmes characters reaching back as far as 1903. Explore the fascinating— and sometimes troubling —media history of Black Sherlock Holmes adaptations across genres as wide-ranging as Broadway musicals and silent film to American jazz, graphic novels, dystopian fiction, and fan fiction. Led by Dr. Ann McClellan, the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at State University of New York Cortland, and former professor of English and department chair at Plymouth State University. She is the author of Sherlock's World: Fan Fiction and the Reimagining of BBC's Sherlock.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Presented in collaboration with the Groton Library.

NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 24 hours of the program. 

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