Stacy Morgan

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Dr. Stacy Morgan
Associate Professor of American Studies
smorgan@tenhoor.as.ua.edu
(205) 348-0069

Education:
  • Wesleyan Univ. (B.A.)
  • Emory Univ. (Ph. D.)

Research Focus:

  • 20th Century

Specialty Fields:

  • Visual arts & film; African American literature and art history; folklore and popular culture

Selected Publications

Recent Publication
    Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-53.(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.

Articles

"'John Henry Had a Little Woman...' Race and Gender Ideologies in the Adaptions of a Folk Legend 1931-1947." Columbia Journal of American Studies (Forthcoming in 2007).

"Clementine Hunter and Melrose Plantation." American Art (Spring 2005): 25-28.


"Migration, Material Culture, and Identity in William Attaway's Blood on the Forge and Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker." College English. (July 2001): 712-740.

"'The Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science': Race Science and Essentialism in George Schuyler's Black No More." CLA Journal (March 1999): 331-352.

On-Line Articles
"Dust Tracks Untrampled by the Dinosaur of History: The Ibo's Landing and Flying Africans Narratives as Mythic Counter-Memory." Sycamore: A Journal of American Culture (Spring 1997).

Encyclopedia Entries

In Steven Reich, ed. Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 2006. William Attaway."


In Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu, ed. The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
     "Neo-Slave Narrative."