{"id":13617,"date":"2024-07-01T09:52:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=13617"},"modified":"2024-07-01T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:52:11","slug":"koritha-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/koritha-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"KORITHA MITCHELL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 20px;\"><strong>Education:<\/strong> B.A., English Composition, Ohio Wesleyan University; M.A., English Language and Literature, University of Maryland, College Park; Ph.D., English Language and Literature with a focus on African American Literature and Culture, University of Maryland, College Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 20px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.korithamitchell.com\/\">Dr. Koritha Mitchell<\/a> is author of the award-winning book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/?id=p078804\"><em>Living with Lynching<\/em><\/a> and author of the 2020 book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/?id=c043321\"><em>From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture<\/em><\/a>. She is also editor of Frances E. W. Harper\u2019s 1892 novel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/broadviewpress.com\/product\/iola-leroy\/#tab-description\">Iola Leroy<\/a><\/em> and editor of Harriet Jacobs\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/broadviewpress.com\/product\/incidents-in-the-life-of-a-slave-girl\/#tab-description\">Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl<\/a><\/em>, the first book-length autobiography by a formerly enslaved woman. She has been a professor of English at Ohio State University for eighteen years. As a visiting scholar, she will conduct her teaching and research in community with BU students, staff, and faculty. Her public commentary has appeared in outlets such as <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5958844\/black-woman-self-care\/\"><em>Time<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2021\/08\/26\/opinions\/the-chair-sandra-oh-netflix-protagonist-mitchell\/\"><em>CNN<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/living\/story\/neuroscientist-best-response-mansplained-research-66505791\"><em>Good Morning America<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/made-by-history\/2023\/03\/07\/harriet-jacobs-racism-sexism\/\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/opinion-mitchell-brianna-brochu-roommate_n_5aabfb61e4b0337adf83827f?ets=\"><em>The Huffington Post<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/every-tally-hate-crimes-blacks-are-most-frequent-victims-n938541\"><em>NBC News<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/sympathy-for-white-austin-bomber-stirs-debate-about-race\"><em>PBS Newshour<\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/codeswitch\/2015\/04\/17\/399604918\/deaths-of-unarmed-black-men-revive-anti-lynching-plays\"><em>NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition<\/em><\/a>. Online, she\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfKori\">@ProfKori<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/files\/2023\/10\/Mitchell-CV-LF-October-27-2023-NP.pdf\">Full CV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23676,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13620,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13617\/revisions\/13620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}