Anita Patterson
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Associate ProfessorBA, MA, PhD, Harvard Universityapatters@bu.edu |
Teaching and Research Interests
- American literature
- Modernism
- Literatures of the Americas
Selected Publications
- Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
- From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race and the Politics of Protest (Oxford University Press, 1997)
- “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)
- “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: Du Bois, Emerson, and the Critique of Liberal Nationalism,” The Massachusetts Review (1994)
- “Comparative Identities: Exile in the Writings of Frantz Fanon and W. E. B. Du Bois,” Borders, Boundaries, and Frames (1994)
Work in Progress
- A book on modernism and Japonisme in the Americas
Other Professional Activities
- Book Review Editor, Twentieth-Century Literature