Students

Sandra Adell (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) specializes in literary criticism and theory, and in literature written by Blacks in English, French, and Spanish. She has published articles in Diacritics, Transitions, The Journal of Caribbean Studies, and Comparative Literature Studies. She is the author of Literary Masters: Toni Morrison (Gale Group 2002) and Double Consciousness/Double Bind: Theoretical Issues in Twentieth Century Black Literature (University of Illinois Press, 1994) She is also the contributing volume editor of the Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture's volume on African American Culture (Manly Inc., 1996). Her current book length projects are Unbearable Representations: A Phenomenological Reading of Fiction by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Leon Forrest, and Arthur de Gobineau: Novelist; Literary Critic; Race Theorist. In addition to her work as a scholar and teacher, Adell is a model for commercials and industrial videos.

Christina Greene (Ph.D., Duke University, 1996) is a historian whose teaching and writing focuses on African American women’s activism. Her research has appeared in Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies and in an edited collection, Hidden Histories of Women in the New South. She has recently finished a book-length community study entitled "Our Separate Ways:” Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina, 1940-1970, and an essay on Black women and school desegregation in North Carolina which will appear in a commemorative collection marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.