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Soyica Senta Diggs Colbert

Assistant Professor of English

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Departments and Programs

  • African and African American Studies
  • English

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Contact Information

Email: soyica.diggs@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2927
Office: 6032 Sanborn House

Education

B.A. Georgetown University; M.A. Rutgers University; Ph.D. Rutgers University

Areas of Expertise

African American drama, literature, and culture; 20th Century American literature and culture; Gender Studies

Selected Works

  • "A Pedagogical Approach to Understanding Rioting as Revolutionary Action in Alice Childress's 'Wine in the Wilderness'," Theatre Topics, 19:1 (2009) 77-85.
  • "Reparations: Repairing the Damages Suffered During the Middle Passage in August Wilson's 'Joe Turner's Come and Gone'," New England Theatre Journal, 19:1 (2008) 45-60.
  • "Dialetical Dialogues: Performing Blackness in the Drama of Alice Childress," in Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook. P Kolin (ed.), (2007) 28-46.
  • "The Sound of Ghastly Sight: James Baldwin's 'Blues for Mister Charlie', a Neo-Lynching Narrative," in Sonic Interventions, S Mieszkowski, J Smith, and M de Valck (eds.), (2007) 193-210.

Current Projects

Black Movements: From Repetition to Reproduction