English Dept. American Lit and Cultures Job Talks

The finalists for the American Literature and Cultures Assistant Professor Position in English will be visiting through February 11. All job talks are in Lind 207A, from 2:30-4 pm. Below are the remaining presentations:

Thursday, January 28: “(Dis)locating ‘Sonny’s Blues’ through Embodied Performance”
Rashida Braggs holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University as well as an M.S. in Mass Communications from Boston University and is currently an assistant professor of Africana Studies at Williams College.

Friday, January 29: “John Brown’s Bed: A Queer Historiography”
Lauren Heintz holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of California, San Diego and is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department at Tulane University.

Monday, February 1: “Outlaws, Hobos, and Radicals: Recovering the Black Marxism of Ralph Ellison’s 1930s Fiction”
Nathaniel Mills holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan and is currently an assistant professor of English at California State University, Northridge.

Thursday, February 4: "'To a Mind Like Mine': Legal Form and the Logic of Madness in Narratives of the Black Atlantic"
Christopher Brown holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Maryland and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and is currently a lecturer in English at Princeton University.

Friday, February 5: “Emancipation in 3D: Slavery, Narrative, and Immersive Photographic Technologies, 1861-1900”
Khaliah Mangrum holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan and is currently a Mellon Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University’s Department of English.

Wednesday, February 10: "Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakota Oyate, 1862-1934"
Christopher Pexa holds a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University and is currently an assistant professor of English at Oklahoma State University.

Thursday, February 11: “The Science of Begging: Uplift and Rehabilitation in the Postbellum United States”
Todd Carmody holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University.