Expertise

I am interested broadly in issues of power, negotiation, and community in literature, intertextuality in literature, and cultural hybridity.

My teaching interests include South African literature and society, 20th-century African literature, British literature to 1800, European classics in translation, Shakespeare, and colonialism in literature.

Communities
African American Studies, English, English, African Studies
Degrees
PhD, University of Michigan, 1989
MA, University of Michigan, 1981
BA, The Pennsylvania State University, 1979