Faculty Research

The current research and published works of the Department’s primary and joint faculty reflect the rich interdisciplinary methodologies, theoretical paradigms, and critical issues that have defined and continue to reshape the field of Black Studies.  Collectively, our scholars have: produced top-tier publications–books, journals, and edited collections; presented ground-breaking and field-changing research at major conferences, meetings, and colloquia; and served as leaders, in a variety of capacities, within the field (and related ones, too).  As the individual faculty profiles further reveal, our scholars are currently engaged in research projects that are examining the most pressing questions in Black Studies, and their forthcoming works will have lasting impacts on the field.  To engage the broader community, the Department of Black Studies frequently hosts symposia, which are open to the Georgetown and Greater Washington, DC communities, and engages broader questions in Black Studies and society.

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

L.H. Stallings, Ph.D.

The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker’s Search for New Life

A Dirty South Manifesto: Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South

Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures

Additional Publications: Mutha’ is Half a Word!: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture, Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital (Co-Editor), Word Hustle: Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines (Contributing Author)

Robert J. Patterson, Ph.D

Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality

Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture

Black Literature, Black Leadership: New Boundaries, New Borders

Additional Publications: The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture (Co-Editor with Soyica Diggs Colbert and Aida Levy-Hussen), Black Cultural Production After Civil Rights

Dayo F. Gore, Ph.D

Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War

“Want to Start A Revolution?” Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle (Co-Editor with Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard)

To Turn this Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism (Editor)

Zandria F. Robinson, Ph.D.

Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South

Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life

Soyica Diggs Colbert, Ph.D.

Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry

Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics

The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance, and the Stage

Additional Publications: The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture (Co-Editor with Robert J. Patterson and Aida Levy-Hussen), “Introduction: On Black Performance“ in African American Review: Special Issue “On Black Performance” 45.3 (2012). (Issue Editor)

Anita Gonzalez, Ph.D.

Performance, Dance and Political Economy

Black Performance Theory

Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality

Plays and Performance Art: Courthouse Bells, Zora on My Mind, The Snark, The Living Lakes, 19thCenturyActs, Anishinaaabe Theatre Exchange, Ybor City the Musical

Angelyn Mitchell, Ph.D.

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women’s Literature (Ed. Angelyn Mitchell and Danille K. Taylor)

The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women’s Fiction

Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present (Editor)