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Meet New Faculty Member: Dr. Spencer Tricker
Dr. Spencer Tricker is one of three new hires that the English Department has welcomed this year. Hailing from Florida with an M.A. in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies, from the University of Central Florida and a Ph.D. in English, from the University of Miami, Dr. Tricker brings a focus in comparative ethnic American literature with emphases on Asian American and Pacific Islander writings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Amy Lowell Letters Project Awarded NEH Grant
The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities is thrilled to announce that the Amy Lowell Letters Project (directed by Dr. Melissa Bradshaw, English)聽has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities聽in the聽Scholarly Editions and Translations聽category.聽 Over the next 36 months, this grant will support the creation an open-access, digital edition of the letters of American poet, editor, and critic Amy Lowell (1874鈥�1925).
Dr. Frederick Staidum: Inciting Change Through Black History
Dr. Staidum, whose research is centered in American literature and culture of the 19th century, especially African American and African Diaspora literatures and cultures has been with the English Department for about seven years. His work interrogates the symbioses of modernity and coloniality, liberalism, and racial capitalism, especially as these developments were shaped by the Atlantic world of the late 18th and 19th centuries. He believes that by providing students with a foundational understanding of these themes in Black History, he can start to sow the seeds of movements toward change.
Dr. Harrison Graves: Exploring Black Masculinity, Tradition, and Gender Roles in African American Literature
Dr. Graves received his PhD in English Literature, coupled with certifications in Critical Theory and African American Studies, with research centered around 20th and 21st century African American Lit. "I specifically study discourses on black masculinity post 1965, after the Moynihan Report, a famous report titled 'The Negro Family, the Case for National Action', which states that the impediment to black people's progress in the US is the lack of the family unit; it pathologizes the family unit by saying that black people don't live up to proper gender roles as it relates to post enslavement."
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