Rachel Banner

Rachel Banner

Associate Professor
Main Hall 507
RBanner@wcupa.edu
She/Her

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Interests

  • 19-Century African American Literature
  • Frederick Douglass
  • 19-Century U.S. Literature
  • 19-Century Aesthetic Theories
  • Law and Literature

Current & Recently Taught Courses:

CLS371 Law & Disorder in Literature
ENG550 History, Form, & Ideology
LIT165 American Outsiders
LIT204 Black Women Writers in America
LIT207 Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
ENG400 Racial Colorblindness in U.S. Law and Literature

Selected Publications

"Emerson, Melville, Futility" in Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Oxford University Press 2024) 

"Thinking Through Things: James McCune Smith's 'The Washerwoman.'" ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 59.2 (2013): 291-328.

"Surface and Stasis: Re-Reading Slave Narrative via The History of Mary Prince." Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 36.2 (2013): 298-311.

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