Margo Natalie Crawford (Email ; phone 812-855-5283)
Assistant Professor
PhD: Yale University, American Studies, 2000

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Twentieth century African American literature, African American cultural movements, "race, gender, and psychoanalysis," theories of the black diaspora, images of "Africa" in the African American imagination, images of blackness in white literary imaginations and non-black, non-white gazes, race and American modernism.

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PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Books: (click on images for ordering information)
New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement , coeditor Lisa Gail Collins, Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Rewriting Blackness: Beyond Authenticity and Hybridity , forthcoming 2007.

Recent articles:
"The Interracial Embodiment of Contradiction in Absalom, Absalom!," Études Faulknérienne s , Volume 1, 2004, Guest Editor, Michael Zeitlin.

"The Reclamation of the Homoerotic as Spiritual in Go Tell It On The Mountain," Special Issue on James Baldwin, MAWA Review, 2004, edited by Carol Henderson, Volume 19, Number 1 (June 2004).

"Erasing the Commas: GenderRaceClassSexualityRegionalism." Preface. March 2005 issue of American Literature. Special issue.

"Natural Black Beauty and Black Drag," in New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement.

"Black Light on the Wall of Respect: the Chicago Black Arts Movement," in New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement.

Partial List of Presentations:
"Rescuing the Black Diaspora from the Black Family Tree," Caribbean Philosophical Association conference, Concordia University, August 2006.

"What's the 'Post' in 'Post-Soul'?: from Mimesis to Collage," Porter Colloquium,

Department of Art History, Howard University, April 2006.

"Cultural Hybridity without the Fetishism of Racial Hybridity: From Jazz to Paradise," Modern Language Association, 2005

"The Chronotope of Washington D.C. in Thereafter Johnnie, " Modern Language Association, 2005

“From The New Negro to Negro: Race, Space, and Time,” Panel entitled “Framing Modernism,” Modernist Studies Association, November 2005

“Dislocating ‘Africa’ in Philadelphia: Afrocentrism and Cultural Hybridity,” Modern Language Association, December 2004.

“Time and Space Are Thicker: The Urban Primitive and the Photographer/Narrator,” American Literature Association (ALA) conference, San Francisco, CA, May 2004

“Skin Lightening versus Black Light: the Aesthetic Warfare of the Black Arts Movement,” The Black Body Conference, Department of African American Studies, DePaul University, April 2004