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HEATHER RUSSELL ANDRADE Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1997) Office: UP – DM 465-B Office #: (305) 348-3369 Courses: GRADUATE: African Diaspora Women Writers C19th Narratives of Enslavement and Resistance UNDERGRADUATE: C19th African American Literature: The Slave Narrative C20th African American Literature Major Caribbean Writers: Afro-Caribbean Black Women Writers Since arriving at FIU in 2003, Professor Andrade’s research and teaching interests have focused on the intersections of race, gender, class, postcoloniality and genre. Her research has primarily examined narrative form and its relationship to configurations of national/racial identities. She is the author of several articles on this subject, published in Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora; African American Review; The Massachusetts Review and in a collected edition of essays examining the works of John Edgar Wideman. Her book, African Atlantic Crossings: Race, Nation and Narratology, is under contract with the University of Georgia Press. She is an active affiliated professor in African New World Studies, is an affiliated Women’s Studies faculty member and belongs to several professional organizations.
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