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Gina Dent

Professor

 

Humanities Division

Humanities Division

Professor

Faculty

Legal Studies
Humanities Division

Regular Faculty

Humanities Building 1
338

By appt only

Humanities Academic Services

Ph.D., English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Africana literary and cultural studies, legal theory, popular culture

  • Books
  • Prison as a Border. (in progress)
  • Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of Anthropology. Duke University Press (forthcoming).
  • Editor, Black Popular Culture. Seattle: Bay Press, 1992; New York: New Press, 1999.
  • Articles
  • “Michael Joo,” in Elaine Kim and Margo Machida, eds., Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Asian American Issues in the Contemporary Visual Arts. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2003
  • Co-author with Angela Y. Davis, “Prison as a Border: A Conversation on Gender, Globalization and Punishment,” Signs: Journal of Women and Culture Vol. 26 No. 4; Summer, 2001.
  • “A New York Story,” catalogue essay for the exhibition Inclusion/Exclusion. Graz, Austria. 1997.
  • “Rita Dove” and “Jamaica Kincaid” (literary biographies) in Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History New York: Macmillan Library Reference. 1996.
  • “Missionary Position” in Rebecca Walker, ed., To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism. New York: Anchor/Doubleday. 1995.
  • “Race and Racism: A Symposium,” Social Text. Vol. 42. Spring, 1995

VAST 1/FMST 71. Introduction to Visualizing Abolition Studies
FMST/POLI 112. Women and the Law
FMST/VAST 176. Law, Prisons, and Popular Culture
FMST 194A. Feminist Jurisprudence
FMST 194G. Images of Africa
FMST 194K. Black/Diaspora
FMST 200. Feminist Theories
FMST 212. Feminist Theory and the Law
FMST/HISC 264. The Idea of Africa

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