“Not Without Laughter: A Norton Critical Edition Speakers Series”

Hosted by R. Baxter Miller on October 7th, 2025

Join editor R. Baxter Miller (University of Georgia) for a discussion of why Langston Hughes's debut novel Not Without Laughter has endured as an often taught and read work! In the second half of the hour, audience members ask questions in an open Q&A with Professor Miller.

R. Baxter Miller (Ph.D., Brown) is Professor Emeritus of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia. The author or editor of more than a hundred publications, including fourteen books and pamphlets, he served as the Donald L. Hollowell Distinguished Research Professor of Social Justice. In 2013 he received the Albert Christ-Janer Award for prominent contributions to the arts and humanities as well as the Daryl C. Dance distinction in lifetime achievement, from the College Language Association, the next year. Miller was bestowed the American Book Award in 1991 for the Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes (1989; 2006). His most recent critical work is The Rise of African American Poetics from Langston Hughes to Gwendolyn Brooks: Arc of Modernism (2021).

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