Spotlight! Guest Instructor Series: Shenita Denson

Retrospective Storytelling, Meaning-Making, and Generativity (the passing down of wisdom): Black Intergenerational Stories About Love

Shenita Denson’s research is centered on the stories we hear and tell – and those we wish we heard or told – around intimate topics and how they impact our identities, relationships, and our health/well-being. For her dissertation, Denson is focusing on the intergenerational stories in the Black community around love and how the meanings (or omission) of these stories have impacted individuals throughout the life course. Utilizing concepts of time, space, place and generativity (the passing down of wisdom), her research challenges us to examine how the communities in which we belong, can be impacted through the use of telling stories, and the impacts of silencing them.