Bio
Angelyn Mitchell is an associate professor in the Department of English.
Dr. Mitchell's teaching and research interests are: American, African American and Caribbean literatures; critical race theory; cultural studies; women's and gender studies; African-American studies, and American Studies. A founding member of the Toni Morrison Society, she is an expert on Morrison's works.
Dr. Mitchell's selected publications include: articles on William Wells Brown, Harriet Wilson, Kate Chopin, Toni Morrison, and Octavia Butler. She also edited Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present (Duke UP, 1994). She is the author of The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, & Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction (Rutgers UP, 2002). She is the co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Writing (Cambridge UP, 2009).
She is currently completing a book-length project entitled "Theorizing Race and Gender: Toni Morrison, Narrative and Identity." Her next research projects include: exploring the failure of marriage in contemporary African American women's literature as political and social critique, examining the cultural construction of daughters in contemporary African American women's fiction, and interrogating the "color line" in contemporary American movies.
She is the founding director of the African American Studies Program.
