J. Martin Favor

Associate Professor of English and African and African American Studies


PhD, University of Michigan

9 Sanborn

J.Martin.Favor@Dartmouth.edu

Interests

My primary interests are in 20th century African American and American Fiction, cultural studies and theorizing identity. I am currently working on two projects: a travel narrative about sites associated with the trans-Atlantic slave trade and how they have become tourist attractions; and a project on African American post-modernisms.

Courses

English 42: American Fiction to 1900
46: American Fiction 1900 to World War II
English 48: Contemporary American Fiction
English 49 Modern Black American Literature
AAAS 10 Introduction to African American Studies
AAAS 33: The African American Intellectual
Advanced seminars on the Harlem Renaissance and Contemporary African American Fiction and Criticism.

Selected Publications

• "Preserving Our Strengths" BET.com. http://www.bet.com/package/0,,p97,00.html. February 2002.
• "'What's a Million Dollars to Michael Jackson?': Authentic Culture and Commercial Tourism," Souls: A Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. 3.2 (April 2001).
• Authentic Blackness: The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance, Duke University Press, 1999.
• "Ain't Nothin Like the Real Thing, Baby: Trey Ellis' Search for New Black Voices." Callaloo 16 (1993): 694-705.
• Inventions of Africa: A Selective Bibliography. Ann Arbor: Center for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Michigan, 1992.