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Candice M. Jenkins' research employs a critical black feminist lens to examine a variety of African American cultural texts, addressing evolving questions of racial subjectivity, sexual politics, and class in the United States. Her book, 'Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy' (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), delves into how African American writers articulate the political consequences of intimacy for an already-vulnerable black subject. In 2011, she guest edited a special issue of the journal African American Review focused on 'Hip Hop Literary.' Her recent book, 'Black Bourgeois: Class Sex Flesh' (2019), explores the dilemmas of Black middle-class embodiment in recent African American fiction. Jenkins is currently working on a new manuscript that extends her interests in the embodiment of racialized vulnerability within contemporary Black science fiction, fantasy, and horror. This project, tentatively titled 'Speculative Pessimisms,' aims to place Afrofuturist Black speculative cultural production in conversation with Afro-Pessimist thought.
Department of English • University of Illinois
Regularly teaches courses on contemporary African American literature, black speculative fiction, hip hop (as) narrative, black women's writing, and black feminist theory.
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