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Publications:
  • The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.                 

  • African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001.

  • The Projection of the Beast: Subverting Mythologies in Toni Morrison’s Jazz.” CLA Journal 49:2 (December 2005). 168-83.

  • “Introduction.” Ebony Rising: Short Fiction from the Greater Harlem Renaissance Era, 1912-1940, ed. Craig Gable. Indiana University Press, 2004. xxi-xlii.

Courses/Seminars:
  • African American Literature: Re-Creating the Harlem Renaissance.                 
  • Modern and Contemporary American Literature: Postmodern American Literature.                                             
  • African American Literature: African American Satire
  • Modern and Contemporary American Literature: The City in American Literature.

Darryl Dickson-Carr specializes in African American literature and 20th Century American literature, particularly African American satire, the Harlem Renaissance, and postmodernism. He takes a special interest in satire’s ability to critique the social and political status quo, especially the place of the bourgeois subject. He is currently working on a book-length project on satirical texts of the Harlem Renaissance.

   
Darryl Dickson-Carr
Associate Professor
Ph.D., U. of California, Santa Barbara
Office: Dallas  Hall  Room 247
Office Hours: ON LEAVE FALL 2007
Phone: 214-768-2215
Email: dcarr@smu.edu
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