Alex Black
Alex BlackAssociate Professor of English and Creative Writing
Joined faculty in 2015
Ph.D., English Language and Literature, Cornell University
M.S., Library and Information Science, Simmons College
B.A., English, University of California, Berkeley
Contact Information
Scholarly Interest
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
Early African American Literature and Culture
Performance Studies
Book History
Teaching Experience
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2014-2015
University of Connecticut, Storrs, 2014
Cornell University, 2012-2013
Courses Taught
ENG 152: American Revolutions
ENG 200: Critical Methods
ENG 250: Early American Literature
ENG 254: Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
ENG 353: Media in Early America
Publications
“Teaching Civil War Speech; Or, Abraham Lincoln's Texts in Context.” Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War. Ed. Colleen Glenney Boggs. New York: Modern Language Association, forthcoming.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Archives of Racial Performance.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 3.1 (2015): 138-146.
“Abolitionism’s Resonant Bodies: The Realization of African American Performance.” American Quarterly 63.3 (2011): 619-39.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
American Studies Association
Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
Society of Early Americanists