Washington College Faculty
Alisha Knight
Assistant Professor of English and American Studies
Director of Black Studies Program
E-mail: aknight2@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782, ext. 7775
Office: Daly 104
Education
- B.A., Spelman College, 1993
- M.A., Rutgers University, 1995
- M.Phil., Drew University 2001
- Ph.D., Drew University, 2004
Office Hours
Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays 9:30 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.
And By Appointment
Published Work
Articles
- "Furnace Blasts for the Tuskegee Wizard: Revisiting Pauline E. Hopkins, Booker T. Washington and the Colored American Magazine." American Periodicals 17.1 (2007): 41-64.
- "Ebony," "Aretha Franklin," and "Carolivia Herron" in Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Ed. William Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.
- "One and One Make One: A Metacritical and Psychoanalytic Reading of Friendship in Toni Morrison's Sula." College Language Association Journal 37.2 (1993): 145-155.
Forthcoming Article
"'All things work together for good': Pauline Hopkins's Race Woman and the Gospel of Success." Loopholes and Retreats: African American Writing and the Nineteenth Century. Ed. John Cullen Gruesser and Hanna Wallinger. Munster: Lit-Verlag, 2008.
Work in Progress
- Racing Into The Publishing Marketplace (A study of late 19th- and early 20th-century African American book publishing practices)
- Debunking the American Dream: Pauline Hopkins's (Re)Visionary Gospel of Success
Press Release
WC's Dr. Alisha Knight Awarded Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
Teaching Areas
- African American Literature (Introductory Survey)
- African American Novel
- The Harlem Renaissance
- The Gilded Age and American Literary Realism
- The History of the Book in America (Print Culture)