Christopher Freeburg
Associate Professor of English
Education
PhD. University of Chicago (2006); MA Stanford University (1996); BA Xavier University of Louisiana (1995)
Courses
I teach advanced and survey courses in American and African American literature. 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; The Idea of Black Culture and Diaspora; The American Novel after 1850; Slavery in the Atlantic World; History of Ideas
Selected Publications
Books
- Melville and the Idea of Blackness: Race and Imperialism in Nineteenth Century America. New York: Cambridge, 2012.
Book Contributions
- "Walt Whitman, James Weldon Johnson and the Violent Paradox of U.S. Progress." Whitman Noir. Ed. Ivy Wilson. University of Iowa Press, 2013.
Journal Articles
- "James Baldwin and the Unhistoric Life of Race." South Atlantic Quarterly 112.Spring (2013):
- "Teaching Literature and the Bitter Truth about Starbucks." Profession (2012):
Reviews
- Rev. of Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative TraditionAmerican Literature 74.3 (2002): 638-640.
- Rev. of Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940; The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade, comp. Laura Doyle. American Literature 81.3 (2009): 613-615.
- Rev. of Modernism, Race, and ManifestoesModern Fiction Studies 57.1 (2011): 185-187.
Works in Progress
- Black Writers in the Ruins of History (book manuscript)
- James Baldwin and the Idea of America (book manuscript)
- The Lumbee and the Black Literary Archive (journal article)
