Faculty

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Catherine C. Saunders

Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana

20th and 21st century African American Literature, African American literature and cultural studies, Black British Literature, Black Critical Theory, Black interiority, Caribbean literature, Toni Morrison

Lucy C. Britt

Assistant Professor of Politics

African American Political Thought, Feminist Political Theory and Pop Culture, Memorials and Memory, political theory, Race and Politics, Race and Whiteness in U.S.

Eden K. Osucha

Associate Professor of English

9/11 literature, African American literature and literary theory, African-American studies, American studies, commodity culture and consumerism, creative writing, critical race studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, histories and theories of privacy in law, histories and theories of privacy in literature and culture, histories of U.S. race and ethnicity, law, legal studies, LGBTQ politics, literary analysis, literature, literature and law, media studies, media studies, nationalism, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, photography, poetry, post-racialism, privacy, privacy law, queer studies, racial passing, representations of disability and illness, theories of the public sphere, Twentieth-Century American Literature, U.S. literature and culture 1865 to the present, visual culture, women and gender studies

Frances R. Bell

Visiting Assistant Professor of History

Africana Studies, Age of Revolutions, Atlantic History, History and the Archive, Migration Studies, Slavery Studies

Melinda A. Plastas

Senior Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, black feminism, critical race theory, cultural studies, gender studies, health justice, history of commodities, peace studies, Social Movements, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

Patrick W. Otim

Associate Professor of History

Marcus C. Bruce

Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies

African American culture, African Americans in France, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American religious history, American religious studies, cultural studies

Marcelle M. Medford

Associate Professor of Sociology

Black Caribbean immigrants in the US, Black sociology, Ethnography, immigrant racialization, Qualitative Methods, sociology of immigration, urban immigration, urban sociology

Charles I. Nero

Benjamin E. Mays '20 Distinguished Prof of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

African American literary studies, African-American studies, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, LGBTQ issues in film and literature, literary and rhetorical criticism, popular culture studies, queer theory and studies, race and Hollywood film

Therí Pickens

Charles A. Dana Professor of English and Africana

20th and 21st century African American/Arab American literature, African American literature and cultural studies, Arab American literature and cultural studies, black feminism, cognitive impairment, disability, disability studies, gender studies, literary theory, mental health, physical impairment, spectacular fiction