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Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., Indiana University
7a Sanborn House
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
Michael
Chaney@Dartmouth.EDU
My book,
Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum
Narrative, is now available from Indiana University Press.
Interests
I specialize in nineteenth-century American and African American literature
and culture with a focus on race representation, mixed race identity, and the
interrelationship of literature and visual culture. Other research and teaching
interests include graphic novels, autobiography, and critical race studies of
historical and contemporary genre fiction.
Courses
English 66 Reading Between the Color Line: 19th Century Literature of
Interracial Identity
English 67 The Graphic Novel
English 43 Early Black American Literature
English 41 American Prose
African and African American Studies 10, Introduction to African American
Studies
Selected Publications
"Drawing on History in Recent African American Graphic Novels." MELUS:
The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the
United States. 32.3 (2007): 175-200.
"International Contexts of the Harlem Renaissance." In Cambridge
Companion to the Harlem Renaissance, ed. George Hutchinson, 41-54.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
"Is There an African American Graphic Novel?" In Approaches to Teaching the
Graphic Novel. Ed. Stephen Tabachnik. Forthcoming from Modern Language
Association Press (2007).
"Throwing Identity: the Visual and Verbal Interplay of Dave the Potter."
Forthcoming in Callaloo (2007).
"Coloring Whiteness and Blackvoice Minstrelsy: Representations of Race and
Place in Static Shock, King of the Hill and South
Park." Journal of Popular Film and Television 31.4 (2004):
167-75.
"Slave Cyborgs and the Black Infovirus: Ishmael Reed's Cybernetic
Aesthetics." Modern Fiction Studies 49.2 (2003):261-283.
"Traveling Harlem's Europe: Vagabondage from Slave Narratives to Gwendolyn
Bennett's 'Wedding Day' and Claude McKay's Banjo." Journal of Narrative
Theory 32.1 (2002): 52-76.
"Touring the Spectacle of Slavery at Magnolia Gardens Plantation."
Southern Quarterly 40 (2002): 126-140.
"Picturing the Mother, Claiming Egypt: My Bondage and My Freedom as
Auto(bio)ethnography." African American Review 35 (2001): 391ˆ408.
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