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Assistant Professor of English
Office: Gamble Hall 102F
Phone: 912.344.3141
Kalenda Eaton earned a Bachelor's Degree in English and Spanish from Dillard University (New Orleans) and her Master's and Doctorate degrees in English with an emphasis in 20th Century African American Literature from The Ohio State University (Columbus). Her latest book, Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965-1980 (Routledge, 2007), examines the representation of the post-Civil Rights Black community in fiction by writers Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, and Paule Marshall. Currently, she is working on an analysis of historical fiction chronicling the lives of African Americans in the American West.
Teaching and Research Interests:
Literature and Cultures of the African Diaspora
20th Century American Literature
Women's/Gender Studies
Literary Theory
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