Christopher Freeburg
Assistant Professor of English
Education
PhD. University of Chicago (2006); MA University of Chicago (1999); MA Stanford University (1996); BA Xavier University of Louisiana (1995)
Courses
I teach advanced and survey courses in American and African American literature before World War I. I also teach discovery courses for new students that incorporate different forms of media like newspapers, television shows (cartoons and sketch comedy), and contemporary fiction.
Research Interests
American and African American Literature; Slavery in the Atlantic World; Colonialism; Philosophy and Literature; the History of Ideas
Publications
Reviews
- Rev. of Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative TraditionAmerican Literature 74.3 (2002): 638-640.
Works in Progress
- Deeper Shadows: Blackness and the Illusion of Mastery in Melville's Americas (book manuscript) "Slavery's Elasticity" (article) "Form and Fact in the Slave's Narrative" (article)
