Literatures of the Americas

This area of study reflects the department’s strengths in many literary traditions of the Americas. Graduate students concentrating in this area will have opportunities to examine the Americas in relation to differing concepts of history, citizenship, nation, region and genre. Long a standout graduate program in Southern literature, we currently house forward-thinking faculty who conceive of the South in broad terms, encompassing an array of genres, media, and ethnic traditions, as well as a new geographic sense of the region that includes the Caribbean.

Personnel


LeAnne Howe

Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature


Isiah Lavender III

Sterling Goodman Professor of English


John Wharton Lowe

Barbara Methvin Professor


Cody Marrs

Professor


Barbara McCaskill

Professor; Co-P.I., Culture and Community at the Penn Center and Civil Rights Digital Library;


Ron Miller

Emeritus Professor


Éric Morales-Franceschini

Assistant Professor


Christopher Pizzino

Associate Professor


Channette Romero

Associate Professor


Susan Rosenbaum

Associate Professor


Hugh Ruppersburg

Emeritus Univ. Professor of English

Research Spotlight


Postcolonial Studies

As Timothy Brennan argues, postcolonial studies brings together “globalizing features of world history and human societies” and “colonial practices and anticolonial challenges”. The interdisciplinary approach embraced by postcolonial studies provides a variety of academic tools and perspectives…

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