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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
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Being Black There: Racial Subjectivity and Temporality in Walter Mosley's Detective Novels
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Novel
(2009)
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Review of 'Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge,' by Jerry Gershenhorn
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The American Historical Review
(2006)
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The Modern in the Postmodern: Walter Mosley, Barbara Neely, and the Politics of Contemporary African American Detective Fiction
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American Literary History
(2006)
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Postmodernism, Urbanism, and African American Literary Studies: Review of 'Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism,' by Madhu Dubey
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Contemporary Literature
(2005)
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"Selecting the Harlem Renaissance."
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Critical Inquiry
(2000)
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"Somebody else's foremother: David Haynes and Zora Neale Hurston."
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African American Review
(1999)
Books
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Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance.
(2004)
Contributions to Books
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The Harlem Renaissance
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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Fiction: 2. Chichester
(2011)
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Eugenics in 'Melanctha'
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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
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Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Conference
(2007)
‘Being Black There’: Racial Subjectivity, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Walter Mosley’s Detective Novels
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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'
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Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference
(2006)
'Contending Forces': The Space of Fiction and the Construction of Citizenship in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins
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American Studies Association Conference
(2005)
Pauline Hopkins’s 'Contending Forces': Immigrant Rights and Black Citizenship
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American Literature Association Conference
(2005)
The Modern and Postmodern African American Detective
,
Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference
(2004)
Other
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Beloved; in online Literary Encyclopedia. Eds. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, and Janet Todd
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Literary Encyclopedia
(2011)