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Contact Information:
457 Bartlett Hall
UMass
Amherst, MA 0l003
p: 413-545-5512
f: 413-545-3880
elordi@english.umass.edu |
Assistant Professor
Emily J. Lordi
Emily Lordi received her PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2009. She was a visiting assistant professor of English at Cornell from 2009-2011. Her forthcoming book, Black Resonance, highlights the aesthetic connections between classic black female singers (Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin) and major African American writers (Richard Wright, Nikki Giovanni). Her next book will be a literary and musical history of the concept of “soul.” She has served as a book review editor for Callaloo and is editor of exhibitions at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.
Recent Work
Black Resonance: Classic Black Female Singers and the Music of African American Literature, Rutgers University Press, forthcoming Fall 2013
Fading Out: White Flight and Sly and the Family Stone’s “Stand!” Journal of Popular Music Studies 24.3 (September 2012)
“Window Seat”: Erykah Badu, Projective Cultural Politics, and the Obama Era, Post45 Peer Reviewed (December 2011): http://post45.research.yale.edu/archives/1828
Review of The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings of James Baldwin, ed. Randall Kenan, under review, African American Review
Review of Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture, by Marisa Parham, Callaloo 34.3 (Summer 2011)
Courses
Fall 2012: African American Life-Writing (300),
American Fiction (376)
Spring 2013: American Identities (270),
African American Music and Literature (Graduate, 891)
Previous
African American Literature (Graduate, 758)
Black Music and Literature (491AK)
Contemporary African American Literature (371)
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