Department of English
Joyce Russell
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Dr. Joyce Russell Office: Butler Building 132 |
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Education Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Studies in English/African American Literature, Emory University. Dissertation: "The Shadow Within: Du Boisian Double Consciousness in Five African American Novels." Areas of Specialty: American Literature, Harlem Renaissance and Chicago Renaissance, African American Women's Literature, and Nineteenth-Century Literature. Other Areas: Literary Theory, African Literature, and Hermeneutics. M.A., English, North Carolina Central University. Thesis: "Existentialism and Determinism in Richard Wright's The Outsider." B.A., English, French Minor, Bennett College for Women.
Selected Publications "Re-interpreting and Re-texting: A Discussion of Honor Killings, Ethical Relativism, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau." Journal for the Advancement of Educational Research (Fall/Spring 2010): 114-19. "Ted Joans." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005. 1187-88. "Nella Larsen." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005. 1003-06. "May Miller." African American Dramatists A to Z. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport,CT: Greenwood, 2004. 282-87. "Nat Turner." African American Autobiographers. Ed. Emmanuel S.Nelson.Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 351-56. "I'm Down with That: A Case for Ebonics." The Journal of Communication and Minority Issues (Fall/Winter 1998-99): 78-84. "A Hermeneutic and Functional Reading of Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy." Issue: A Journal of Opinion: A Publication of the African Studies Association (Fall 1997): 44-49. "Defiance and Hope: The Christian Temperament in Nineteenth-Century African American Women Narratives." Perspectives on Womanist Theology. Ed. Jacquelyn Grant. Atlanta: ITC Press, 1995. 25-39. "Renaissance Manque: Black WPA Artists in Chicago." The Western Journal of Black Studies (Spring 1994): 36-43.
Research Interests African American Literature/Studies; African Literature; Critical Race Theory; Race, Gender, and Alterity; and the Intersection of Literature and Philosophy.
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