Daylanne English

Macalester College

• Associate Professor and Chair, English
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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

Links

• English Department