English has teaching and research interests in the areas of African American literature, the Harlem Renaissance, American modernism, Anglophone Caribbean literature, as well as working-class studies and race and film studies. Her book, Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, was published in May 2004. She was also awarded the The Norman Foerster Prize in 2000 for the best essay published annually in American Literature by the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association. EDUCATION: B.A., Oberlin College M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia English has been teaching at Macalester since 2003.
Journal Articles
Being Black There: Racial Subjectivity and Temporality in Walter Mosley's Detective Novels, Novel (2009)
Review of 'Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge,' by Jerry Gershenhorn, The American Historical Review (2006)
The Modern in the Postmodern: Walter Mosley, Barbara Neely, and the Politics of Contemporary African American Detective Fiction, American Literary History (2006)
Postmodernism, Urbanism, and African American Literary Studies: Review of 'Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism,' by Madhu Dubey, Contemporary Literature (2005)
Books
Contributions to Books
Eugenics in 'Melanctha', Gertrude Stein: Three Lives and Q.E.D., a Norton Critical Edition (2005)
Presentations
"All I had was the certainty that the world had passed me by”: Blackness, Modernity, and Temporality in Walter Mosley’s Writings, Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Conference (2007)
‘Being Black There’: Racial Subjectivity, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Walter Mosley’s Detective Novels, NOVEL’s 40th Anniversary Conference, “Theories of the Novel Now" (2007)
Third Person Singular: Gender, Race, and History in William Wells Brown’s 'Narrative of the Life' and 'Clotel', Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference (2006)
'Contending Forces': The Space of Fiction and the Construction of Citizenship in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, American Studies Association Conference (2005)