E3W Literature | University of Texas

Jill Anderson
Concentrations: 19th c. American Literature, Mexican Literature, Mexican-American Literature
Dissertation Title: "Re-reading the American Renaissance in Mexico City and in New England"

Emily Bloom
Concentrations: Ethnic & Third World Studies, British Modernism, Irish Literature

Melanie Clouser
Concentrations: Literature (both written & oral), Literary Criticism & History; Gender
Dissertation Title: "The Art of Malhoun Poetry in Moroccan Culture"

Layne Craig
Concentrations: 20th c. Transatlantic Women's Literature
Dissertation Title: "Rhetoric of the Birth Control Movement in Women's Literature, 1915-1939"
Publications: “Theory and Praxis: The Feminist Solidarity Group at the University of Texas at Austin. Thirdspace: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture, Forthcoming. Co-authored with Erin Hurt.
“‘A Type of Her Race and His Own’: Celtic Sovereignty Goddess Tradition in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” James Joyce Quarterly, 45.1 (Fall 2008).
Review of Sharpened Edge: Women of Color, Resistance, and Writing, ed. Stephanie Athey, Ethnic and Third World Review of Books, April 2008.
Review of Reproductive Rights in a Global Context, by Laura Knudsen,Ethnic and Third World Review of Books, April 2007.

Jeremy Dean
Concentrations: Ethnic and Third World Studies, American Literature
Dissertation Title: "Multiplicities: The Infrastructure of Multiethnic Urban American Literature, 1899-1996"

Naminata Diabate
Concentrations: 20th c. African, African-American, and Afro-Hispanic Literature, Post-colonial Theories
Dissertation Title:"The Body in Resistance: Fictional Representations of Women's Use of Sexual Power in West African Literatures and Popular Cultures"
Publications: “Rene Maran’s Batoualaand Africa: The Limits of the Alliance.” Oral and Written Expressions of African Cultures. Ed. Toyin Falola and Fallou Ngom. Forthcoming.
“African Women and Missionary Writings: Nineteenth-Century Boloki Women of the Congo in John H. Weeks’ Among Congo Cannibals (1913).” Intersections: Women’s and Gender Studies in Review across Disciplines (Fall 2007).
“From RAL to Ira Aldridge: An Interview with Bernth Lindfors.” Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 8 (Spring 2008).
Review of Postcolonialisms, Eds. Gaura Desai and Supriya Nair. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 7 (Spring 2007)
Encyclopedic Entries: "Cote d'Ivoire Pre-Independence Protest and Liberation," "Cote d'Ivoire Post Independence Era Protest," in Immanuel Ness Ed. International Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution: 1500-Present. London: Blackwell, 2009. Forthcoming.

Megan Eatman
Concentrations: 20th c. Latino/a Narrative, Human Rights

Katherine L. Y. Evans
Concentrations: Native American Literature, late 19th-early 20th c. American Literature, performance
Dissertation Title: "Staged Encounters: Native American Performance between 1880 and 1920"

Lauren Gantz
Concentrations: 20th c. Ethnic American Literature, Women and Gender Studies

Lisa Gulesserian
Concentrations: Diaspora Studies, Children's Literature

Molly O. Hardy
Concentrations: 18th c. British Literature, Book History, Irish Studies, Ethnic & Third World Studies
Publications:“Symbolic Power in Mary Robinson’s Presidency and Eavan Boland’s Poetry” in New Hibernia Review: A Quarterly Record of Irish Studies. 12.3 (2008): 47-65.
Co-author. “Norman Mailer Takes on America” in The Mailer Review. 1.1 (2007): 141-175.
“Gendered Trauma in Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake” in Studies in European Cinema. 3.3 (2006): 211-221.
Review of Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Phillip Gould in Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 7 (Spring 2007): 22.
Review of The Irish Art of Controversy by Lucy McDiarmid. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 6 (Spring 2006): 30.

Olga Herrera
Concentrations: 20th c. Ethnic American Literature
Dissertation Title:"City of Myth and Muscle: Race, Labor, and Space in Chicago's Mexican-American Literature"

Erin Hurt
Concentrations: 20th c. Ethnic American Literature, Women & Gender Studies
Publications:“Theory and Praxis: The Feminist Solidarity Group at the University of Texas at Austin.” Thirdspace: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture, Forthcoming. Co-authored with Layne Parish.
Review of Resistance Literature, by Barbara Harlow. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 8 (Spring 2008).
Review of The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality, by Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 7 (Spring 2007).
Review of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination, by Joanne Barker. Special issue of Studies in the Humanities 33.2 (December 2006).
Review of On Beauty, by Zadie Smith. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 6 (Spring 2006).

Daniel Kahozi
Concentrations: African Literature & Swahili

Crystal Kurzen
Concentrations: Ethnic & Third World Studies, American Literatures, Women & Gender Studies
Dissertation Title: “‘Choosing our own metaphors’: Genre and Method in Contemporary Chicana/o Life Narratives”
Publications: Review of Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature Edited by Dagoberto Gilb. Texas Books in Review 27 (Spring 2007): 11-2.
Review of Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith. Ethnic and Third World Review of Books7 (Spring 2007): 47-9.
Review of Brides and Sinners in El Chuco by Christine Granados. Texas Books in Review 26 (Spring 2006): 13.
Review of Drive: The First Quartet, New Poems, 1980-2005 by Lorna Dee Cervantes. Southwestern
American Literature 31 (Spring 2006): 88-90.
Review of Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders by Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Ethnic and Third World Review of Books 6 (Spring 2006): 16-8.
Review of Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus, David St. Clair (Translator), and Robert M. Levine (Afterword). Ethnic and Third World Review of Books 5 (Spring 2005): 33-5.

Noah Mass
Concentrations: Southern Literature, African-American Literature, and 20th c. American Literature; Ethnic and Third World Studies
Dissertation Title: "An Angle Of Vision: Richard Wright, Carson McCullers, and American Southern Regionalism"

Sean McCarthy
Concentrations: Irish Studies, Technology Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies
Publications: "Giving Sam a Second Life: Beckett's Plays in the age of convergent media" Texas Studies in Literature and Languages, (forthcoming, 2009).

Charlotte Nunes
Concentrations: British & Irish Modernism, Imperialism, Human Rights
Publications:“‘Return to the Lonely Self’: Autonomy, Desire, and the Evolution of Identity in Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy.” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Forthcoming.

Andrew Uzendoski
Concentrations: 20th c. Ethnic American Literature

Lydia Wilmeth-French
Concentrations: 20th & 21st c. Ethnic American Literature & Song
Publications:
Review of “The Migrant Border Ballads Project,” from The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 7 (Spring 2007).
Review of The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary by Ramón Saldívar. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 8 (Spring 2008).