People
Faculty
Michelle Taylor
Titles
- Assistant Professor
Education
- PhD Rice Unviersity, 2001
- MA Rice University
- BA Mount Holyoke College
Teaching and Research Interests
- 19th c./early 20thc. African American literature and culture
- African American women writers
- Feminist Theory
- 19th c. American literature and culture
- Popular culture
Selected Publications
- “Geographies of Freedom: Mobility, Race, and Freedom in Charles Chesnutt’s Northern Writing” forthcoming in Charles Chesnutt: New Essays, McFarland Publishing.
- “The Weary Blues,” Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Eric Haralson, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001:315-316.
- "J. California Cooper,” Contemporary American Women Writers. Ed. Laurie Champion and Rhonda Austin. Connecticut: Greenwood Press,2002:72-76.
- “Gayl Jones,” Contemporary American Women Writers. Ed. Laurie Champion and Rhonda Austin. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002: 159-165.
- “Paule Marshall,” Contemporary American Women Writers, Ed. Laurie Champion and Rhonda Austin. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002 : 216-222.
- “Ann Petry,” Contemporary American Women Writers, Ed. Laurie Champion and Rhonda Austin. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002: 300-305.
Work in Progress
Dr. Taylor is currently working on articles on Pauline Hokpkins and Eliza Potter. She is also working on a book entitled, Emergent Identites: The Rise of the Common Woman in the Literature of the African Diaspora.