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 Rhonda Frederick Department of English College of Arts and Sciences
frederir@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/~frederir
Office Location Carney Hall 459 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: 617-552-3717 Fax: 617-552-4220
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EDUCATION
A.B., University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
ACADEMIC PROFILE
Specializes in Caribbean and African American literatures. Her scholarly interests include literatures of the Americas, particularly 20th Century women’s popular fiction, mystery/detective, and futurist fiction/fantasy writing. She is currrently interested in the detective and/or futurist fiction of Nalo Hopkinson, Walter Mosley, BarbaraNeely, and Colson Whitehead. Her first manuscript, “Colón Man a Come”: Mythographies of Panamá Canal Migration, examines the recurrent figure of the Panama Canal worker in Caribbean literature, song, and memoir.
COURSES
EN083.07 - Literature:Traditions/Countertraditions
EN139.01 - Introduction to Caribbean Studies
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
- "Mythographies of Panamá Canal Migrations: Eric Waldron's 'Panama Gold'." Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean. Oxford: Macmillan Press-Warwick University Caribbean Studies, 2003. pp. 43-76
- "What If You're an 'Incredibly Unattractive,Fat, Pastrylike--fleshed Man'?:Teaching Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place." College Literature 30.3 Summer '03, 1-18.
- "Colon Man Version: Oppositional Narratives and Jamaican Identity in Michael Thewell's The Harder They Come." Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research 2.2 (2002), 157-176.
- "Only a Little Brown": Mary Seacole's Creole Performance in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands." Gender and History, forthcoming.
- "Jamaica Kincaid," The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, 2001.
- Review of Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Race and Gender in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston by Susan Edwards Meisenhelder (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999) for American Literature 73.1 (March 2001): 209-210.
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
Awards & Honors:
- Emerging Voices, New Directions/Ford Foundation/Bowdoin College Summer Grant, 2003.
- Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2001-2002
- DuBois-Mandela-Rodney Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2001-2002 (declined)
- Faculty Fellowship, Boston College, Fall 2001 (declined)
- Research Incentive Grant, Boston College, Spring 2000
Professional Organizations: American Studies Association (ASA) Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS) Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) Modern Language Association (MLA) |