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photo of Saidiya V Hartman
photo of Saidiya V Hartman
Full-time Faculty

Saidiya V Hartman

University Professor

Research Interests

African American and American Literature and Cultural History
Slavery
Law and Literature
Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies
Law and Humanities
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism
19th Century
20th and 21st Century
American and the Americas
African American and African Diaspora
Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies
Africa
photo of Zoë L. Henry
photo of Zoë L. Henry
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
Modernism
Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies
Law and Literature
Feminism
Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies
Psychoanalysis
Critical Social Theory
photo of Joseph R. Slaughter
photo of Joseph R. Slaughter
Full-time Faculty

Joseph R. Slaughter

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights

Research Interests

Comparative Literature
African, Latin American, and Third-World Literatures
Postcolonialism
Narrative and Rhetorical Theory
The Global South
Globalization
Modernity
Critical and Narrative Theory
Human Rights
Intellectual Property
Law and Literature
Law and Humanities
Postcolonial and Global South
Africa
20th and 21st Century
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