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Ivy Wilson (Ph.D. Yale University) teaches courses on comparative literatures, Black diaspora, and U.S. literary studies with a particular emphasis on African American culture. His book, Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Nationalism, interrogates the figurations and tropes of blackness used to produce social equations that regulate cultural meanings of U.S. citizenship. It traces how African American intellectuals manipulated the field of aesthetics to enter the political discourse about forms of subjectivity and national belonging. His articles appear in ESQ, Arizona Quarterly, and PMLA. His work in U.S. literary studies includes edited volumes on James Monroe Whitfield, Albery Allson Whitman, and Walt Whitman. Current research interests focus on the solubility of nationalism in the relationship between theories of diaspora, global economies, and culture, particularly within circuits of super-national and sub-national frameworks. Specializations include Asian American Literature, 20th- & 21st-century American Literature, Critical Race Studies, Postcolonial & Diaspora Studies, American Literature 1900, African American Literature, and Poetry & Poetics.
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