Department of English
NOELLE MORRISSETTE
Education:
Ph.D., African American Studies and English Literature, Yale University, 2002
MA, African Studies, Yale University, 1995
BA, English, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1992
Interests:
African American literature and culture; Black popular culture; American visual arts; history and memory; gender and sexuality; biography; autobiography; history of the book; African literatures; Caribbean literatures; children’s literature.
Selected Publications:
Introduction, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Other Writings, by James Weldon Johnson. Barnes and Noble Classics. New York: Fine Creative Media, 2007.
“Both the Law and Its Transgression: Toni Morrison’s Paradise and ‘Post’-Black Feminism.” Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women’s Writings. Angela Cotton and Christa Davis Acampora eds. New York: SUNY Albany Press, 2007.
“‘Past Performances of the Negro’”: James Weldon Johnson’s Black Manhattan.” Obsidian III: Black Literature in Review 5 (2) 151-166.
Undergraduate Courses:
African American Writers After the 1920s
Early African American Authors
Major American Authors: Realist to Modern
Harlem Renaissance (2008)
Graduate Courses:
Topics in the Study of African American Literature: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
Title: Assistant
Professor
Fall 2007 Office Hours: T 1:30-3:30
E-Mail: namorris@uncg.edu
Phone: 256-0484
Office: 3135 MHRA