Assistant Professor, English Department
(Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2007 )
tel.: (607) 777-5494
fax.: (607) 777-2408
e-mail:jsa@binghamton.edu
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
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)
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.
Recent Courses Taught
English 380B Race Realism and the City: African American Literature 1940-1960
English 450Q, Representation and Popular Music: The Live Concert
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
