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African American and African Diaspora Literature

Affiliated Graduate Students

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Amy Barenboim

PhD Student

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora Literature
Afro-Jewish Studies
Archives
Black-Jewish Atlantic
Black Radicalism
Caribbean Studies
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Critical Theory
Diaspora Studies
History of Capitalism
Theories of the Novel
The Holocaust and Colonialism
Jewish Studies
Marx and Marxisms
Racial Capitalism
Slavery Studies
Whiteness Studies
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Alec Joyner

PhD Student

Research Interests

19th and 20th Century American Literature
the Novel
Modernism
Affect Theory
Feminist Theory
African American and African Diaspora Literature
Humor, Comedy, and Laughter
Francophone Literature

Dissertation / Thesis Title

"Going to Pieces: The Laughter of the Other in US Novels of the 1930s"
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