Lecturer
Contact
100 Bay State Road, Room 318
617-358-1543
atall@bu.edu
Bio
Asha Tall served most recently as an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Labouré College in Milton, MA. There, she taught English literature and writing-intensive courses on US civil rights to adults, many of them first-generation college students. Previously, she taught first year writing, environmental justice, and Black literature classes at Tufts University, where she did her doctoral research and wrote her dissertation reconnecting the theoretical contributions of Sylvia Wynter’s early creative work to Wynter’s corpus as a whole. Tall is most animated by critical pedagogies, the intersections of literature and antiracist activism, and the contemporary Black literature of the African diaspora. Her research centers archival work on the published and unpublished writing of Black women envisioning social, political, economic, and erotic self-determination. Before Tall returned to the academy, she edited and published nonfiction books with an independent movement press.