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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

Phone: (949) 824-0718
Fax: (949) 824-2916
Email: akeizer@uci.edu

University of California
366 Humanities Instructional Building
Mail Code: 2650
Irvine, CA 92697

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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
   
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.
   
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Last updated 08/25/2009