Professor Pruitt Discusses Kingsolver Novel at ClassCrits Conference

On Feb. 9, Professor Lisa R. Pruitt gave a talk titled “The Racial Politics of Demon Copperhead” during a panel discussion of  author Barbara Kingsolver’s 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead. The panel was part of the ClassCrits Conference at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.

Lisa R. Pruitt, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor at UC Davis School of Law, is a scholar whose recent work explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity.  Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts. She is the recipient of the law school’s 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award.