Megan Finch

[email protected]

English

310B Pillsbury Hall

310 Pillsbury Dr. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

English

American Studies

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Megan Finch’s research focuses on the relationship between Enlightenment/racial slavery era discourses on reason and blackness. More specifically, her current work focuses on how late 20th-21st century literature by black women mobilizes these discourses to contest the figure of the "mad black woman” and contemporary definitions of reason.

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D: English, Brandeis University
B.A.: English, University of California, Davis

Specialties

20th- and 21st-century American Literature
20th- and 21st-century African American Literature
Black Feminist Theory

Publications

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Publications

Finch, Megan. "Is It Lonely (T)here? Intramurals, Black (W)holes, and Black Feminism ." differences 35 : 157–83.
Finch, Megan, Ohman, C; Chaudhry, VV. "The L Word’s Afterlives: Queer Media Convergence and the Logics of Diversitainment." Television & new media .
Finch, Megan. " Missing Mothers of the Afropocene: Parable of the Sower and Octavia Butler’s Legacy in An Unkindness of Ghosts." The Black Scholar 54:2 (2024): 20-32.
Finch, Megan. "Baldwin’s (Afro)pessimism: Another Country as a “Colonized and Acculturated Society”." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 48.1 (2023): 93-114.
Finch, Megan. "“THE MAD (WO)MAN IN BLACK STUDIES” - BLACK MADNESS :: MAD BLACKNESS BY THERÍ ALYCE PICKENS." Cultural Critique 118 : 219-228.
Finch, Megan. "Training Gendered Whiteness: Teaching Thomas Dixon's The Clansman after Charlottesville." South: a scholarly journal 50.2 (2019): 126-34.

Awards

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Awards

McKnight Land-Grant Professorship , 2025-2027
Pembroke Center, Brown University, Nancy L. Buc ’65 Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2023
Social, Equity and Inclusion Grant, Rhode Island School of Design, 2020
Mellon Dissertation-Year Fellowship, Brandeis University, 2018 - 2019

Courses

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Courses

ENGL 3332: Black Times: Afrofuturism, Afropessimism and the Future (Ends) of the World
ENGL 3598W: Introduction to African-American Literature and Culture II
ENGL 5300: On James Baldwin - Friends, Enemies, and Academics
ENGL 3596W: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures II
ENGL 1918 (001): The Worlds We Have Made: Some of Us Are Already Living in a Dystopia/ After the Apocalypse