Sri Basu
Assistant Professor, English
School of Humanities
School of Humanities
Affiliate Faculty, Culture and Theory
Email: srimayeb@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
143 Krieger Hall
Irvine, CA 92697
143 Krieger Hall
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
18th- and 19th-Century Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, Critical Theory, Labor History, Black Studies
Research Abstract
My research areas include eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Anglophone Atlantic Literatures, Black Atlantic Studies, and Labor History. My current book project, The Anti-Robinsonade: Slaves, Criminals and Servants in the Early Anglophone Atlantic, reads Black Atlantic literature alongside penal history and the histories of slavery and abolition in the long eighteenth century, and offers a new account of how extra-economic violence racialized New World labor.
Publications
"Estranged Land and Labor in the DuBoisian Black Belt," American Literary Realism (University of Illinois Press), https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/944842.
"'Flaming Madras handkerchiefs and Calico Blazing with Crimson and Scarlet Flowers': Antebellum World Systems in Hannah Crafts’s The Bondwoman’s Narrative," Nineteenth Century Studies (Penn State UP) https://doi.org/10.5325/ninecentstud.35.0033
"The Diseased Body Politic of Early America in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy," MELUS (Oxford UP) https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac012
“The Aestheticization of Politics: The Case of Lynching Photographs,” Modernism/Modernity Print Plus (Johns Hopkins UP) https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/basu-aestheticization-politics-case-lynching-photographs
“Reading Los Angeles’ Urban Uprisings: From Watts to Rodney King,” Modern Language Studies (NEMLA, SUNY Buffalo) http://www.jstor.org/stable/45387695.
Grants
Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellowship, The Library Company of Philadelphia & The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2023.
Rare Book School, University of Virginia and the American Antiquarian Society, 2023
UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence Career Development Award, 2021
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, Intersections Doctoral Research Grant, 2019-2020
Dissertation Fellowship, Charles Vincent and Heidi Cole McLaughlin Endowment, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 2019-20
Professional Societies
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
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Last updated
11/30/2024
11/30/2024