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.
Expertise
- African American literature and culture
- The Harlem Renaissance
- American modernism
- Race, gender, and modernity
- History of the novel
- Literature and medicine
- Literature and legal studies
- Race and visual culture
- Detective fiction
Courses/Seminars
- Topics in 19th Century African-American Literature: From Fiction to Non-Fiction
- History of a Literary Genre: Letters & Diaries
- History of a Literary Genre: African-American Detective Fiction
- Novel
- African American Literature from 1900 to the Present
- Topics in 20th Century African American Literature: Contemporary African American Novels
- American Voices
- African American Literature to 1900
Honors & Awards
- Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2004 by the American Library Association (for Unnatural Selections)
- University System of Maryland Women's Forum Faculty Research Award, 2001
- MLA's Foerster Prize, 2000
- National Endowment for the Humanities Dissertation Grant, 1995-1996