Arlene R. KeizerAssociate Professor, English Associate Professor, African American Studies |
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Research Interests |
African American literature and culture, Caribbean literature and culture, literary and critical theory, critical race and ethnic studies, feminist theory, cultural studies | |
| Appointments |
Brown University: Associate Professor with Tenure, 2004-2007 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Associate Professor with Tenure, 2002-2004 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Assistant Professor, 1997-2002 |
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Research Abstract |
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. | |
| 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. | ||
| Grants | Postdoctoral Fellow with the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP), 2006-07. | |
| Edith Goldthwaite Miller Faculty Fellow at the Pembroke Center for Research and Teaching on Women (Pembroke Seminar), Brown University, 2005-06. | ||
| A. Bartlett Giamatti Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, 2000-2001 (year-long research fellowship). | ||
| American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowship, American Fellowships Program, 1995-96. | ||
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5511 | |
| Last updated | 08/25/2009 | |