Arlene R. Keizer

Associate Professor, English School of Humanities
Associate Professor, African American Studies School of Humanities
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996 M.A., Stanford University, 1988 A.B., Princeton University, 1986

366 Humanities Instructional Building
Irvine, CA 2650

Phone: (949) 824-0718
Email: akeizer@uci.edu

Current book project examines the ways in which African-Diaspora intellectuals have engaged with psychoanalytic theory and practice. Articles in progress on the short films of Kara Walker and Isaac Julien and black feminist avant-garde literature and visual art.

Fields of Interest:
African American literature and culture, Caribbean literature and culture, literary and critical theory, critical race and ethnic studies, feminist theory, cultural studies

Publications
“Gone Astray in the Flesh: Kara Walker, Black Women Writers, and African American Postmemory.” PMLA 123.5 (October 2008): 1649-72.

“Black Feminist Criticism”—chapter in A History of Feminist Literary Criticism. Ed. Gill Plain and Susan Sellers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007: 154-68.

Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery (Cornell UP, 2004)

“The Geography of the Apocalypse: Incest, Mythology, and the Fall of Washington City in Carolivia Herron’s Thereafter Johnnie.” American Literature 72.2 (June 2000): 387-416.

“Beloved: Ideologies in Conflict, Improvised Subjects.” African American Review 33.1 (Spring 1999): 105-23.