Katherine McKittrick, a professor of gender studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, will present “A Poetics of Declension” at Boston College on March 19 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. McKittrick is author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle and Dear Science and Other Stories. She also edited and contributed to Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis and co-edited Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Her current project looks at NourbeSe Philip’s poem “Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with the Flying Cheek-bones.” Her talk is presented by BC’s Lowell Humanities Series and cosponsored by African and African Diaspora Studies. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.