Campus Phone: (810) 762-3479
E-mail: aakent@umflint.edu
Web Site: http://spruce.umflint.edu/~aakent/homepage.htmEducation
M.A.,
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
B.A. (English and International Relations), Stanford University, 1990
Specializations/Areas
of Interest
Multicultural
Literatures
Publications/Current
Research
African, Native, and
Jewish American Literature and the Reshaping of Modernism. Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007. My book focuses on six novelists, Charles Chesnutt,
Zora
Neale Hurston, Mourning Dove, D'Arcy McNickle, Abraham Cahan, and Anzia
Yezierska.
“‘You can’t run away nowadays’: Redefining Modernity in D’Arcy
McNickle’s The Surrounded.” Forthcoming in Studies in American Indian
Literatures.
I have also published on Mourning Dove and on Native American feminism.
I am currently working on an article about teaching
multicultural literatures online.
I am currently working on an article about teaching
multicultural literatures online and am exploring my next book project,
which will focus on American ethnic writers in an international context.
Courses
I Teach
Survey of
African American Literature
Modern Native American Literatures
Multicultural American Literatures (Intro and Topics)
Elements of Literary Analysis
Harlem Renaissance seminar
Major Novelists: Hurston and Wright