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The University of Chicago English department will only admit graduate students working “in and with Black Studies.”

John Fea   |  September 15, 2020

If you are applying to graduate school in English and do not want to study anything other than Black Studies, you shouldn’t waste your time on an application to the University of Chicago. Here is an announcement on the department’s...

Teaching Alice Walker’s “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”

John Fea   |  March 4, 2020

On Monday we wrapped-up the “Creation” unit in Created and Called for Community.  I began the class with a review.  Over the last two weeks we read: Genesis 1 and 2 Bruce Birch’s theological commentary on Genesis 1-3: “The Image...

Teaching James Weldon Johnson’s “The Creation”

John Fea   |  February 22, 2020

Yesterday in my Created and Called for Community (CCC) class at Messiah College we discussed James Weldon Johnson‘s poem “The Creation” (1922). It is one of seven poems in his 1927 collection God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.  Read...

George Moses Horton’s Recently Discovered Prose

John Fea   |  September 29, 2017

George Moses Horton was an African-American poet enslaved in Chatham County, North Carolina.  Jonathan Senchyne, a book historian at the University of Wisconsin, has discovered a previously unknown essay by Horton entitled “Individual Influence.” Learn more about Horton and this new...

Phillis Wheatley: “On Virtue”

John Fea   |  July 7, 2017

Michael Monescalchi is a graduate student in English at Rutgers University.  Over at Common-place he reflects on Phillis Wheatley‘s poem “On Virtue” and her engagement with the theology of Jonathan Edwards. Monescalchi writes: “Wheatley’s saying that her soul touched by Virtue can...

The Author’s Corner with Eric Gardner

John Fea   |  September 3, 2015

Eric Gardner is Professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University.  This interview is based on his most recent book, Black Print Unbound:  The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture (Oxford UP, 2015). JF: What led you to write...

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