I study 20th and 21st Century Black hemispheric literature with a focus on the Caribbean and the Eastern and Southern U.S. I'm interested in how Black authors and musicians approach and trouble the stability of the category of the human through ecopoetics and epistemologies that engage a concept of the pre- and post-human.
Faculty Profiles
- Helen Ganiy
- Graduate Student
- At Rutgers Since: 2021
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Primary Areas of Specialization: 20th and 21st Century Black Literature
- Field of Interest: African-American & Diaspora, Caribbean, Environmental Humanities, Hemispheric, Postcolonial, Sound Studies, Theory, Twentieth Century, Writing
- Undergraduate Courses Taught:
ENG 350:104 - College Writing
ENG 350:101: Expository Writing
ENG 350:201 - Principles of Literary Study
- Other Publications:
"From Human to Humus: Terrapolisian Materiality as Metaphysical Possibility in Patrick Chamoiseau's Slave Old Man (1997)" - ISLE, 2025