Full- time Adjunct Faculty A.B. Princeton University Ph.D. Columbia University Carney Hall 345 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Phone: 617-552-2014 Email: lori.harrison.1@bc.edu

Academic Profile

Lori specializes in American literature and culture, modernism, gender studies, and comparative race and ethnic studies.  She is the author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (Rutgers University Press, 2011), a volume in the American Literatures Initiative. Her essays and book reviews have been published in Callaloo, Cinema Journal, Legacy, MELUS, Modern Drama, Modern Fiction Studies, Modern Language Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and The James Joyce Quarterly. Her work also appears in the anthologies Styling Texts: Dress and Fashion in Literature and Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion and is forthcoming in the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen.  She was the 2010 recipient of the American Studies Association’s Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award for Independent Scholars and Contingent Faculty, and she is currently co-editing a special issue of MELUS on the future of Jewish American literary studies.  As an Adjunct Assistant Professor at BC, she teaches the First-Year Writing Seminar, Literature and Society, Traditions and Countertraditions, Studies in Narrative, Introduction to American Studies, and Making and Remaking Americans: Race, Sex, and Gender in Literature and Film.