Mara de Gennaro

219 Vaughan Literature
(570) 577-1653
mara.degennaro@bucknell.edu

 

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Mara de Gennaro (Ph.D. Columbia University) is an Assistant Professor of English. Before coming to Bucknell in 2006, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia, and a visiting assistant professor of English at Duke.

Teaching Interests

Transnational modernism and comparative postcolonial studies.

Current Projects and Research Interests

Book manuscript (in progress) on ideas of cosmopolitanism, border-crossing, and poetic imagination in works by T.S. Eliot, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, and Derek Walcott, among others.

Selected Publications

“Césaire and Brathwaite: Negritude and Imagining Across Cultures.” Negritude: History, Relevance and Heritage. Ed. Claver Mabana and Isabelle Constant. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars P, forthcoming in 2008.


“Fighting ‘Humanism’ on Its Own Terms.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 14.1 (2003): 53-73.


“What Remains of Jean Genet?” The Yale Journal of Criticism 16.1 (2003): 190-209.

 

 

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