Shauna M. Morgan

Research Interests:
Creative Writing
African American Literature and Culture
Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies
Women's Literature and Gender Studies
Literary Theory
African Literature & Film
Current Research & Teaching Topics
  • Literatures of the African Diaspora (African American, Black British, Caribbean)
  • Black Liberation
  • Black Poetry and Poetics
  • South Asian & Indo-Caribbean Literature
  • Intersections of Art, Music, and Literature

 

 

 

Selected Publications:

Poetry

"Sweet Samba" and "Bequest." Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices.

“Specter” and “Midnight Feeding.” the A-Line: a journal of progressive thought 

“Molasses” and “Omi Adura.” A Gathering Together 

Fear of Dogs & Other Animals. Boston: Central Square Press 

Peer-reviewed Articles

“For the "Dark Star": Reading Womanism and Black Womanhood in the Novels of Caryl Phillips.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 48.3-4

 “Neocolonialism and Ethnic Gerrymandering in the North American Academy.” College Language Association Journal 60.2 

 “A Problematic Agency: The Power of Capital and a Burgeoning Black Middle Class in Edward P. Jones’s The Known World.” South Atlantic Review 79.1-2 

Book Reviews

Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life edited by Bénédicte Ledent and Daria Tunca and Mobility at Large: Globalization, Textuality, and Innovative Travel Writing by Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 49.2 

Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1791-1831 by Ian Coller. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.74:3