Anita Patterson
apatters@bu.edu
Associate Professor. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard

Teaching and Research Interests: American literature; modernism; black literature of the Americas

Selected Publications: Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms (Cambridge University Press, 2008); “Translation and Modernist Transculturation:  T. S. Eliot and Langston Hughes,” special translation issue of The Harvard Advocate (2008); “Japonisme and Modernist Style in Afro-Caribbean Literature: The Art of Derek Walcott,” Review of International American Studies 2.2 (2007); From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest (Oxford University Press, 1997); “Emerson, il transnazionalismo e l’enigma dell’amicizia,” America at large: Americanistica transnazionale e nuova comparatistica (2004); “Emerson, Transnationalism, and the Enigma of Friendship,” Emerson at 200: Proceedings of the International Bicentennial Conference (2004); “Pastoral Poetry and Transculturation in Guyana: The Contexts of Wilson Harris’s ‘Trail’,” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (2002); “Contingencies of Pleasure and Shame: Jamaican Women’s Poetry,” Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century (2001); “Jazz, Realism and the Modernist Lyric: The Poetry of Langston Hughes,” Modern Language Quarterly (2000); “Doing More than Patrick Henry: Douglass’s Narrative and Nineteenth-Century American Protest Writing,” Approaches to Teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1999); “Images of the Internment: Mitsuye Yamada's Camp Notes,” MELUS (1999); “Harriet Jacobs, Henry Thoreau, and the Character of Disobedience,” Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays (1996); “American Philosophy as Praxis: From Emerson and Thoreau to Martin Luther King,” Salmagundi (1995); “Negotiating Claims of Race and Rights: DuBois, Emerson, and the Critique of Liberal Nationalism,” The Massachusetts Review (1994); “Comparative Identities: Exile in the Writings of Frantz Fanon and W.E.B. DuBois,” Borders, Boundaries, and Frames (1994)

Work in Progress: A book on Japonisme and Modernism in the Americas.

Other Professional Activities: Book Review Editor, Twentieth-Century Literature