Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Affiliated Faculty

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Full-time Faculty

Zoë L. Henry

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

African American Literature/ Diaspora Studies

20th and 21st Century Literature

Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Theory

Dance and Performance Studies

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Law and Literature

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Critical Social Theory

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Full-time Faculty

C Riley Snorton

Professor of English and Comparative Literature and ISSG

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora Literature

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Critical Theory

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Transgender Studies

Film and Media Studies

Theater and Performance

Affiliated Graduate Students

Jay Gao

PhD Student

Research Interests

Asian American and Asian Diaspora, African American and African Diaspora, Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies, 20th/21st Century American, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Poetry and Poetics, Ecocriticism, Creative Writing and Creative-Critical

Megan Maldonado (née Lonsinger)

PhD Student

Research Interests

Medieval Literature, Romance, Poetry and Poetics, Material Culture, Christian Theology, Britain, Europe, Islamicate World, Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies, World Literature, Europe, Comparative Literature and Translation

Pranav Menon

PhD Student

Research Interests

Studies legal and literary imaginations of space and place, American empire, Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies, American and the Americas, Global Anglophone Literature, Postcolonial and Global South, 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Poetry and Poetics, Cultural Studies, Ecocriticism, Science and Environmental Studies, Public Humanities, Law and Humanities, Marxism