Meet the Graduate Director
Mollie Godfrey is the editor of Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow and Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry, which received Honorable Mention in the Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship from the Modern Language Association. Her newest book, Brave Humanism: Black Women Rewriting the Human in the Age of Jane Crow, is forthcoming from Ohio State University Press.
Mollie’s scholarship has appeared in numerous academic journals and edited volumes, including MELUS, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, CLA Journal, Contemporary Literature, Arizona Quarterly, a/b: Aubto/Biography Studies, Public: A Journal of Imagining America, and the award-winning collection Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination. She has co-directed several nationally-recognized Black archival recovery and digital humanities projects, including the Furious Flower Archive: A Prototype, Celebrating Simms: The Story of the Lucy F. Simms School, and Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities, and has written for public-facing platforms such as Ted-Ed, New York Public Radio, and Humanities for All.
Mollie Godfrey
English Graduate Director
godfrema@jmu.edu

Nikema Bell
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Ben Cook
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Rylee Dangerfield
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Haylee Edwards
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Angela Rona Estavillo
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Riley Hollars
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Ava Jacobs
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Jana Reina Villorente Liberato
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