Biography I specialize in African diasporic literatures from the vantage point of the eighteenth-century transatlantic world. My research and teaching engage with methods from Caribbean Studies, Black Studies, Cultural Studies, and social movement histories through the Black Atlantic world. As an interdisciplinary scholar and educator, my work centers on historical representations of subaltern, enslaved, and …
Interests Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, Heritage Language Processing, Psycholinguistics Biography Degrees and Institutions Select Publications Research Interests My research interests include bilingualism, second language acquisition, heritage language processing, and psycholinguistics. Currently, I am exploring the grammatical and lexical processing of both Vietnamese and English in bilingual speakers who are Vietnamese heritage language speakers and Vietnamese-dominant …
Biography Research Interests Composition pedagogy, audio/multimodal composition, andragogy, intersections between creative nonfiction/memoir and women’s rhetorics, popular culture studies, and religious rhetorics Degrees and Institutions Courses Taught Introductory composition courses (ENGL 100 face-to-face and online); themed courses focused on community/place, online writing, and food; creative nonfiction courses; Advanced Composition (ENGL 400); Race, Sex, and Texts (ENGL …
Interests 19th to 21st century African American literature, African diaspora literatures and cultures, transnational Black Studies, comparative slavery studies, race, gender, visual and popular culture, poetry, drama, the novel Biography Degrees and Institutions Publications Book: Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora. LSU Press, June 2022. Selected Articles and Book Chapters: …
Biography Degrees and Institutions Publications and Awards Ron Kuka has published short stories in the Iowa Journal of Literary Studies, Toyon, and Pavement. His teaching has been recognized with the Chancellor’s Hilldale Award for Excellence in Teaching. Recent Books
Biography Eileen Lagman is Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric in the Department of English. Her research focuses on ethnographic studies of literacy learning with additional interest in histories of Asian migration, labor economics, and emotion studies. Her current book project Virtual Nationhood: Learning and Loss in Migrant Literacy examines the effects of “brain drain …
Biography Research Interests Creative Writing, Poetry & Poetics, Creative Nonfiction, Hip-Hop, Poetry & Performance, Writing & Social Justice, Community-Based Creative Practice, Chicago Literature Degrees and Institutions MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Michigan BA, English (Creative Writing) and African American Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University Recent Publications Finna, One World/Random House (2020) Wild Hundreds, University of …
Biography Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Ideal Cities (HarperCollins, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry series winner; Copia (BOA Editions, 2014); and Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), which won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics …
Biography Born and raised in Jacksonville FL, Dantiel W. Moniz is a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree, a 2024 USA Fellow, the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Florida Book Award, the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, and Fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell, among others. Her debut collection, Milk Blood Heat was a …