Rachel Banner
Associate Professor; Assistant Chair for Faculty Evaluations and Elections
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
"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.