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Megan Finch
English
310B Pillsbury Hall
310 Pillsbury Dr. S.E.
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
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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
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
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