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Visiting Associate Professor
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English
Ph.D. 1998 (American Studies), M.A. 1993 (American Studies), Yale; A.B. 1984 (Ethnic Studies), UC Berkeley
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Areas of Research/Interest: 19th- and 20th-century American literary and cultural history; African-American literature and culture
Select Publications:
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature. Chicago, U of Chicago P, 2006
“‘Keeping the Secret of Authorship’: A Critical Look at the 1912 Publication of James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” (1998)
“The High and Low-Tech of It: The Meaning of Lynching and the Death of Emmett Till” (1996)
“‘I Disguised My Hand’: Writing Versions of the Truth in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and John Jacobs’ ‘A True Tale of Slavery’” (1995)
Affiliations: Modern Language Association; American Studies Association; Research Working Group in African American Women’s Intellectual History (Columbia & Rutgers Univ.); Society for the Study of American Women Writers; Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies; Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing; Society for American Archivists
Fellowships/Honors: William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association, 2007 (for A Spectacular Secret); Finalist, Lora Romero First Book Prize, American Studies Association, 2007 (for A Spectacular Secret); Bibliography Society of America Research Grant, 2005-2006; Andrew W. Mellon Career Enhancement Fellowship, 2002-2003; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow-in-Residence, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2000-2001; Kate B. & Hall J. Peterson Research Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2000-2001; Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1995-96; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, 1990-95
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