Associate 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
Hinman Box: HB 6032
Education
- B.A. Miami University; Ph.D. Indiana University
Areas of Expertise
- African-American literature and culture; 19th century American literature; graphic novels; visual culture studies
Selected Works
- (Ed) Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels (2011).
- Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative (2008).
- E.E. Cummingss Tom: A Ballet and Uncle Toms Doll-Dance of Modernism, Journal of Modern Literature 34:2 (2011) 22-44.
- “Terrors of the Mirror and the Mise en Abyme of Graphic Novel Autobiography,” College Literature 38:3 (2011) 21-44.
- “‘Heartfelt Thanks to Punch for the Picture’: Frederick Douglass and the Transnational Jokework of Slave Caricature,” American Literature 82:1 (2010) 57-90.
- “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.
- “Slave Cyborgs and the Black Infovirus: Ishmael Reed’s Cybernetic Aesthetics,” Modern Fiction Studies 49:2 (2003) 261-283.
Current Projects
- Marking the Gaps: Dave the Potter, Interdisciplinarity, and African American Studies ; Reading Lessons in Seeing: the Graphic Novel in Form and Theory
