Darryl Dickson-Carr

Professor Dickson-Carr teaches courses in 20th-century American literature, African American literature, and satire. His research focuses primarily upon the “New  Negro” or Harlem Renaissance and African American satirical works of the 20^th and 21^st centuries. His current research focuses upon the African American rhetorical tradition from the antebellum period to the present.

Areas of research

• Satire
• The New Negro or Harlem Renaissance
• African American rhetoric

Awards and Distinctions

• 2009 Spirit of Innovation Award, Dedman College
• The Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, 2006

Selected Publications

• “Second Thoughts: On Larry Howe’s ‘George S. Schuyler’s “Shafts and Darts”: The Messenger Years, 1923-1924.’” Studies in American Humor 6:2.

• “The Two Gentlemen of Harlem: Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring, Richard Bruce Nugent’s Gentleman Jigger, and Intellectual Property.” Editing the Harlem Renaissance, ed. Joshua Murray and Ross Tangedal. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2021.

• “Making Wit, Irony, and Satire the Foundations of American Literature.” MLA Options for Satire. Ed. Evan Davis and Nicholas Nace. New York: Modern Language Association, 2019.

• "Black Literature Matters; or Making It New.”American Literary History 29:4 (Winter 2017).
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•  “From Pilloried to Post-Soul: The Future of African American Satire.” Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights, ed. Derek C. Maus and James J. Donoghue. University of Mississippi Press, 2014.
• "African Americans and the Making of Modernity.” American Literary History (ALH), Fall 2013.
• “The Historical Burden that Only Oprah Can Bear’: African American Satirists and the State of the Literature.” Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon, ed. Shirley Moody and Lovalerie King. Indiana University Press, 2013.
• “Waiting for Olódùmarè: Ishmael Reed and the Recovery of Yoruba.” Literary Expressions of African Spirituality. Ed. Elizabeth West and Carol Marsh-Lockett. Lexington Books, 2013.
• “African American Literature and the Great Depression.” The Cambridge History of African American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Books

• Spoofing the Modern: Satire in the Harlem Renaissance. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015.
• 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.

Press

• Studies in the Novel, North Texas Television

Courses taught

• African American Literature: Re-Creating the Harlem Renaissance.
• Modern and Contemporary American Literature: Postmodern American Literature.
• African American Literature: African American Satire