Full-Time Faculty

Jennifer James
Ph.D., English, University of Maryland
M.A., English, Syracuse

Professor James specializes in African American literature and culture, with a concentration in the 19th century. She has a particular interest in theorizing the relationships among literary praxis, representations of blackness and social violence. She is currently researching African American discourses of the black psyche in the 19th century as part of a larger project on the way psychological disabilities are interpreted in African American culture.

Book:

A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature, the Civil War-World War II, the University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Other Publications:

“ ‘Civil’ War Wounds: William Wells Brown, Violence, and the Domestic Narrative,” The African American Review, 39.1.2: 39-54.

Co-editor, MELUS Special Issue: Race, Ethnicity, Disability and Literature 31.3 (Fall 2006).

“‘On such legs as are left me’: Gwendolyn Brooks, WWII and the Politics of Rehabilitation,” Feminist Disability Studies, ed., Kim Hall, University of Illinois Press; forthcoming

Forthcoming: Associate editor, War, Freedom and Patriotism: An Anthology of African American Writings, Rutgers University Press; forthcoming