Specialization: Representations of Slavery in American Literature

Interests: I am interested in issues of nationalism, slavery, trauma and identification as they manifest in the fields of 19th and 20th Century American Literature, African American Literature, and Literary Theory.

Recent Publications: “‘Downward Passages’: William Wells Brown’s Narrative & Traveling Subjectivity.” African American Review (forthcoming, 2008).

Major Advisor: Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez