Margo Natalie Crawford
Associate Professor
- Degrees
- Yale University,
Ph.D. - Yale University,
M.A. - Swarthmore College,
B.A.
Bio
Margo Natalie Crawford is a twentieth century Americanist focusing on African American literature and intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. Her research and teaching interests range from race and American modernism to twenty-first century African American literature. She is the author of Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus (2008), a study of the body politics of lighter and darker-skinned blackness, and the coeditor, with Lisa Gail Collins, of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (2006). She is a key figure in the recent wave of scholarship on the 1960s and early 1970s Black Arts movement. She is now completing a book connecting word and image interplays in the Black Arts movement and the 21st century.
Research and Teaching Interests
- African American Literature and Visual Culture
- Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- The Poetics of Social Movements
- Literature and Theory of the African Diaspora
- Comparative Ethnic Literature
Current Projects
- Words, Images, Black Power, and Post-Black Play (book)