Tuskegee university 2014 College of Arts and Sciences Research Directory



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Eleanor J. Blount, Ph.D.


Associate Professor, English

Department of English

College of Arts and Sciences

Email: blounte@mytu.tuskegee.edu

Office Phone: 334-725-2339

Office Address: Room 70-314

John A. Kenney Hall

Tuskegee University

Tuskegee, Alabama 36088


English

BLOUNT

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  • African American women’s literature

  • Slave narratives and neo-slave narratives

  • Antebellum America 20th and 21st century African American fiction

  • American multiculturalism and feminism

  • Novel and short story writing


Collaboration:

  • Dr. Tiffany Boyd Adams

Department of English

Claflin University



  • Dr. Sharynn Etheridge

Department of English

Claflin University



Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Blount began exploring the African American condition with a BA degree in history (African American) and a minor in English from Paine College. She later received the MA Professional Writing degree from Kennesaw State University, specializing in fiction writing and composition pedagogy. Her Ph.D. degree is from the University of Georgia in creative writing. The doctoral work centered around research into the lives and literature of the African American, particularly of the slave era, and culminated in a dissertation which is a novel that takes slavery and African American women’s issues as its themes. Before entering academia, she studied journalism and worked as a news reporter.


Publications and Presentations:

  1. Beloved Autonomy: Selfhood and Tragedy in African American and Ancient Greek Female Narratives, CLA Journal, Sep2010, Vol. 54, 1

  2. Reflecting on the Woman in the Mirror: An African American Woman Looks at Shameful Hair, presented at Society of Women in Philosophy Mideast Conference, Illinois State University, 2001

  3. Music and Musicality in the Writing of Margaret Walker, presented at CLA Conference, University of South Carolina, 2011


Zanice Bond, Ph.D.


Assistant Professor, English

College of Arts and Sciences

Email: zbond@mytu.tuskegee.edu

Office Phone: 334-725-2310

Office Address: Room 70-313

John A. Kenney Hall Tuskegee University

Tuskegee, Alabama 36088
English

BOND


Research Fields:

  • Life Writing and Women’s Biographies

  • Oral History and Afro-Indigenous Intersections

  • Literature and Commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement

  • Anti-Racism work and writing center studies

Collaborations:

  • Ms. Moira Ozias

Writing Center

University of Oklahoma



  • Ms. Tami Albin

Library, University of Kansas

  • Ms. Christie Cooke

Department of English

Haskell Indian Nations University



  • Dr. Sheena Harris

Department of History

Austin Peay State University



Biographical Sketch:

Professor Zanice Bond earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Kansas in Lawrence. She brings writing center work and nearly ten years of community college teaching to her position at Tuskegee University. Her research is influenced by her work in oral history and immigration history, as well as her training as an embalmer and funeral director, making for a rich and interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature, community, and the American experience.


Representative Publications/Presentations:

  1. “Mildred Roxborough: Friend and Former Resident of Brownsville, Tennessee.” Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times Volume 2. Ed. Beverly G. Bond and Sarah Wilkerson Freeman. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2014 (in press).

  2. “What did we learn and what do we do next?” Women of Haywood Their Lives, Our Legacy: Professional African American Women in Haywood County, Tennessee. Ed. Cynthia A. Bond Hopson. Lebanon, TN: Touched By Grace Publication. 2012.

  3. “Marion B. Jordon and the Pittsburgh (PA) NAACP, 1952-1958” ASALH 97th Annual Convention. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. September 27, 2012.





Loretta S. Burns, Ph.D.


Professor and Head, English

College of Arts and Sciences

Email: L_burns@mytu.tuskegee.edu

Office Phone: 334-727-8100/334-727-8113

Office Address: Room 70-303

John A. Kenney Hall

Tuskegee University

Tuskegee, Alabama 36088


English

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Collaborations:

  • Dr. Bill F. Ndi

Department of English

Tuskegee University



  • Dr. Irene V. Jackson

Center for Ethnic Music

Howard University



  • Dr. S. N. Burn Department of Mathematics and Science

Alabama State University

  • William Gantt

The Southern Literary Trail

Birmingham, Alabama



Biographical Sketch:

Professor Loretta S. Burns received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has studied at Ohio State University, Columbia University, and the Sorbonne, and she has conducted research at Harvard University as a fellow at the Bunting Institute (now called the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study) and at Yale University as a recipient of an NEH grant. Her ongoing research focuses on the influence of African American oral forms (blues, spirituals, ballads, and folktales) on written literature, and her recent projects include a study of the relationship between literary and cinematic fiction and an examination of the interconnections between literature and science. She also writes fiction and poetry and has edited three literary journals. Dr. Burns has taught at Fisk University, the University of Florida, and Washington University in St. Louis.


Representative Publications:

  1. My Brother, My Sister (with Bill F. Ndi). Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa RCIPG-Oxford African Book Collective, 2012.

  2. “Tuskegee Institute.” The Companion to Southern Literature. Eds. Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda H. MacKethan. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2002. 917.

  3. “Voices and Visions from a Land Most Strange.” Alabama English 2.1 (1990). 25-34.

  4. “The Structure of Blues Lyrics.” More Than Dancing: Essays on Afro-American Music and Musicians. Ed. Irene V. Jackson. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. 221-237

English

COLLIER


Research Fields:

  • Afro-Brazilian Women’s Literature

  • Afro-Cuban Women’s Literature

  • Service-Learning and Writing

  • Social Movements and Change: Hip Hop

  • Global Health Disparities

  • Zora Neale Hurston in Alabama

Collaborations:

  • Dr. Lisa Beth Hill

Department of History & Political Science

Tuskegee University



Instituto Cultural Steve Biko

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil



  • Ms. Claire Gonzalez

Center for Latin American Studies

Vanderbilt University



  • Dr. Dawn Duke

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

University of Tennessee, Knoxville



  • Ms. Deborah Gray

Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights

Multicultural Center



Rhonda M. Collier, Ph.D.


Associate Professor, English

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of English

E-mail: collierr@mytu.tuskegee.edu

Office Phone: 334-725-2307

Office Address: Room 70-331

John A. Kenney Hall

1200 West Montgomery Road

Tuskegee, Alabama 36088



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