African and African Diaspora Religions

Chery

Arselyne Chery is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. She is also an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow in Caribbean Studies. Her dissertation explores the entangled politics of race, gender, power, and kinship in the Caribbean, as depicted in twentieth and twentieth-first century Caribbean diaspora literature. Her fields of interest include African American literature, Anglophone Caribbean literature, African Diaspora literature, Black Feminisms, and Postcolonial studies. Arselyne is a first-generation college and graduate student.

Kessenich

On Research: I am a doctoral candidate in the English department at the University of Virginia. My dissertation centers on historical recovery as an impulse within African American literature, especially regarding how Black writers address and attempt to rectify the power imbalance that stems from a historical record that misrepresents and elides Black life and Black subjectivity.

McDowell

DEGREES

August, 1979 Ph.D., Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana Major Field:  American/African-American Literature Dissertation: "Women on Women: The Black Woman Writer of the Harlem Renaissance--Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston"
 
1972-1974 M.A., Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana
Major: American Literature
 
1968-1972 B.A., Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama
Major: English; Minor: Spanish

BOOKS

Grandison

Degrees

  • M.L.A. University of Michigan, 1990
  • B.S. University of Michigan, 1985

Articles

  • "Architecture's Other: Radicalizing the Vernacular," Appendx 4 (1999): 98-119.
  • "Challenging Formalism: The Implications of Contemporary Cultural Theory for Historic Preservation," Landscape Journal 18.1 (1999): 30-40.
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