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
Research Fields:
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African American women’s literature
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Slave narratives and neo-slave narratives
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Antebellum America 20th and 21st century African American fiction
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American multiculturalism and feminism
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Novel and short story writing
Collaboration:
Department of English
Claflin University
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:
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Beloved Autonomy: Selfhood and Tragedy in African American and Ancient Greek Female Narratives, CLA Journal, Sep2010, Vol. 54, 1
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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
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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:
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Life Writing and Women’s Biographies
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Oral History and Afro-Indigenous Intersections
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Literature and Commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement
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Anti-Racism work and writing center studies
Collaborations:
Writing Center
University of Oklahoma
Library, University of Kansas
Department of English
Haskell Indian Nations University
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:
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“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).
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“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.
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“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
BURNSResearch Fields:
Collaborations:
Department of English
Tuskegee University
Center for Ethnic Music
Howard University
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Dr. S. N. Burn Department of Mathematics and Science
Alabama State University
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:
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My Brother, My Sister (with Bill F. Ndi). Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa RCIPG-Oxford African Book Collective, 2012.
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“Tuskegee Institute.” The Companion to Southern Literature. Eds. Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda H. MacKethan. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2002. 917.
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“Voices and Visions from a Land Most Strange.” Alabama English 2.1 (1990). 25-34.
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“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:
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Afro-Brazilian Women’s Literature
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Afro-Cuban Women’s Literature
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Service-Learning and Writing
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Social Movements and Change: Hip Hop
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Global Health Disparities
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Zora Neale Hurston in Alabama
Collaborations:
Department of History & Political Science
Tuskegee University
Instituto Cultural Steve Biko
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Center for Latin American Studies
Vanderbilt University
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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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