Dr. Erin Forbes

Biography

Erin Forbes is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol specializing in African American literature of the long nineteenth century. Her research encompasses various themes including the racialized formations of human aesthetics, transatlantic trade of enslaved people, and the literary historical figures such as Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Benjamin Rush, and Richard Allan. She has published the book 'Criminal Genius: African American U.S. Literature, 1793-1845' through Johns Hopkins University Press, which examines notions of creativity in the context of race and criminality. Additionally, she is working on a book project titled 'Reading Nineteenth Century Black, White, Green', focusing on the neglected strands of environmentalism in the long nineteenth century through the works of authors like Phillis Wheatley and Edgar Allan Poe. Erin earned her B.A. from Reed College and both her M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. Before joining the University of Bristol, she was an Associate Professor in English and African American Diaspora Studies at the University of Wyoming (USA).

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