Ally Barber

Entry Year: 2020

Email

barbera@smu.edu

Education

M.A., University of St. Andrews
B.A., University of St. Andrews

 

Biography

 I work with twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. ethnic literature. My dissertation investigates the relationship between master narratives of gender and race and traumatic histories in literature by U.S. ethnic women writer. 

Area of Expertise

  • Postmodernism (Post 1945).
  • Contemporary (21st Century)
  • African American Literature
  • Latinx Literature
  • Native American and Indigenous Literatures
  • American Literature
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies.
  • Narrative Theory

 

Publications

“I’m leaving evidence": Traumatic Rememory, Identity, and the Body in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora.” MELUS, vol. 50., no. 1, 2025, pp. 120-140.
 
Review of José O. Fernandez. Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures. MELUS, vol. 49, no. 1, 2024, pp. 221-223.

 

 

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