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Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman
(Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2007 ) Assistant Professor, English Department
tel.: (607) 777-5494
fax.: (607) 777-2408
e-mail:jsa@binghamton.edu
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State University of New York • Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 |
Areas of Interest
- African American Literature and Culture
- 19 th and 20 th Century American Literature
- Popular Music, Sound and Audio Culture Studies
- Race, gender, and representation
- Multicultural American Literature and Theories of Multiculturalism
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Current Projects
- The Contours of the Sonic Color-line: Slavery, Segregation, and the Cultural Politics of Listening (book project in progress)
- “Splicing the Sonic Color-Line: Tony Schwartz Records Postwar Nueva York” (article in progress)
- “‘Now that’s a Lollapalooza!’: Music, Multiculturalism, and White Racialization in the 1990s” (article in progress)
- American Accents: Listening and the Construction of the ‘Average Citizen’ (book project in progress)
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Books and Recent Articles
- “Under the Western Eyes of Fashion: Marie Claire’s Construction of Global Feminism,” The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Armed Repression, and Women’s Poverty , Marguerite Waller, Amalia Cabezas, and Ellen Reese, eds. (Paradigm, forthcoming November 2007).
- “‘Haute Culture’ for Mail Order Missionaries: Representing the Third World Woman in the American Magazine,” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture (September 2006): 595-613.
- “Bad Reputation: Rock Studies Rethinks American Identity,” The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies (Spring 2004): 92-105.
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Recent Courses Taught
- English 380B Race Realism and the City: African American Literature 1940-1960
- English 450Q, Representation and Popular Music: The Live Concert
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Awards
- Finalist, Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize, American Studies Association 2007
- University Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2006-2007, 2001-2002
- Predoctoral Fellowship, Frederick Douglass Institute of African and African American Studies, University of Rochester, New York , 2005-2006
- Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship, 2005
- Anna Bing Arnold Fellowship, USC, 2003-2004
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