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Michael A. Chaney

Assistant Professor of English

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Departments and Programs

  • African and African American Studies
  • English

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Contact Information

Email: michael.chaney@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2316
Office: 6032 Sanborn House

Education

B.A. Miami University; M.A. University of Charleston; Ph.D. Indiana University

Areas of Expertise

African-American literature and culture; 19th century American literature; visual culture studies

Selected Works

  • Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative (Blacks in the Diaspora Series) (2008).
  • "Drawing on History in Recent African American Graphic Novels," MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 32:3 (2007) 175-200.
  • "International Contexts of the Harlem Renaissance," in Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance, George Hutchinson (ed.), (2007) 41-54.
  • "Slave Cyborgs and the Black Infovirus: Ishmael Reed's Cybernetic Aesthetics," Modern Fiction Studies, 49:2 (2003) 261-283.
  • "Traveling Harlem's Europe: Vagabondage from Slave Narratives to Gwendolyn Bennett's 'Wedding Day' and Claude McKay's Banjo," Journal of Narrative Theory, 32:1 (2002) 52-76.

Current Projects

Marking the Gaps: Dave the Potter, Interdisciplinarity, and African American Studies; "Graffect: Affect and Subjectivity in Autobiographical Graphic Novels"