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J. Martin Favor

Associate Professor of English
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Departments and Programs

  • African and African American Studies
  • English

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Contact Information

Email: j.martin.favor@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2329
Office: 6032 Sanborn House

Education

B.A. Carleton College; Ph.D. University of Michigan

Areas of Expertise

African American literature; Harlem Renaissance

Selected Works

  • "George Schuyler and Wallace Thurman: Two Satirists of the Harlem Renaissance," in The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance, G. Hutchinson (ed.), (2006).
  • "Preserving Our Strengths," BET.com, (February 2002).
  • "'What's a Million Dollars to Michael Jackson?': Authentic Culture and Commercial Tourism," Souls: A Journal of Black Politics, culture, and Society, 3.2 (April 2001).
  • Authentic Blackness: The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance, (1999).
  • Inventions of Africa: A Selective Bibliography, (1992).

Current Projects

"'Is It Coz I's Black?': Da Ali G Show and Postmodern Minstrelsy;" Doors of Return: The Sites of Slavery as Tourist Attraction; What Price Culture? African American and American Life and Literature in/as a System of Commodities