Office: Keezell
219
Phone: 540-568-7058
Email: smithbma@jmu.edu
Office Hours:
ON LEAVE FALL 2007 - SPRING 2008
Education:
BA, Queens College - City University of New York
MA, University of Virginia
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Awards:
Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellow, Queens College
Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow, UVA
Courses:
Spring 2007
Geng 260 - Survey of African Literature
Gamst 200 - Introduction to American Studies
Eng 672 - Studies in African American Literature
Specialties:
Research interests include African diaspora fiction and autobiography; postcolonial theory; immigration narratives; English-, French- and Spanish-language rap music; hip hop cultural formations and politics
Publications:
"Reading in Circles: Representing Sexuality and/as History in Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem" in Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters (1995); Review of Michael Eric Dyson's Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism in Callaloo (1994); "Discovering the Tomb of Victor Sejour," AfrAm Newsletter, Centre d'Etudes Afro-Americaines et des Nouvelles Literatures en Anglais de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (1991). |
