Stephen Knadler, Ph.D.

Title: Professor of English and Associate Chair, Department of English
Email: knadlers@spelman.edu
Office: 404-270-5575

 Courses: 

• U.S. Latino/a Literature and Culture
• Trauma and Testimony in Women’s Life Writing
• U.S. Racial Masculinities
• Imagining Afro-Asia
• American Body Politics: The 1850s
• Germs, Genes, and Zombies: Narrating Biomedicine,
  Narratives of Biomedicine
• Literary Theory Seminar
• Honors Composition
• Introduction to Literary Studies
• U.S. Literature after 1865
• U.S. Literature before 1865
• Comparative U.S. Ethnic Literatures

Degrees:
Ph.D & M.A. Vanderbilt University

Current Research:
Manuscript in Progress: Sanitary Citizenship: Biomedical Politics and Racial Uplift 

Stephen Knadler’s most recent publications have examined the transnational framework of 19th-century and early 20-century African American literature to recover its complicated re-imaging of democracy and citizenship. He is currently working on a manuscript looking at the relation among biomedicine, public health discourse, and African American culture.

Recent Publications:
Books:
Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature. New York:  Routledge Press, 2009      

Fugitive Race: Narrating and Resisting Whiteness, 1850-1980. Jackson, MS: The University Press of Mississippi, 2002

Recent Articles:

• “Unsanitized Domestic Allegories: Biomedical Politics, Racial Uplift, and the African American Woman’s Risk Narrative. American Literature 85 1 (March 2013).
• “Dis-abled Citizenship: Narrating the Extraordinary Body in Racial Uplift.” Forthcoming in Arizona Quarterly 2013.
• “’The Bright Side’: Moral(e) Influence and African American Women’s Post-Reconstruction Affective Politics.” Forthcoming in Oxford Press New Narratives of the American South. 
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  “Back to Oriental Africa: Islamicism and Becoming African in the Early Black Atlantic.” Modern Language Quarterly  72 1 (Spring 2011)
• Democracy Hesitant: Sociological Knowledge Production, Policy, and the Public Sphere.” American Literary History 23 1 (2011): 135-147
• “At Home in the Crystal Palace: African American Transnationalism and the Aesthetics of Representative  Democracy.”  ESQ: The Journal of the American  Renaissance 56 (2010): 329-362

Recent Grants and Awards

• NEH Summer Research Grant, 2011
• UNCF Henry McBay Research Fellowship, Summer 2010
• CIEE Ping Fellowship for International Faculty Development Seminar, “Spain and Morocco,”  Summer 2010
• Mellon Tocqueville Faculty Development Seminar, Grant, Summer, 2010
• Spelman College Free Thinking Women’s Course Development Grant, 2010 “Germs, Genes, and Giant Babies: Biomedical Narratives, Narrating Biomedicine”
• Spelman Small Faculty Development Grant, 2012